Just dropping by to add my support for adding this functionality. At
the moment it doesn't seem consistent that you automatically delete
the file when you delete a model (...what if something else was using
it?!) but don't do the same when uploading a new file to the same
field. It should be co
I would love to see this feature in Django as soon as possible :)
something like: avatar = ImageField(upload_to='avatars', blank=True,
replace_on_upload=True)
Also a Widget which adds a Checkbox to a ModelForm to clear the
ImageField, like RemovableFileField in ticket #7048, would be great!
On
On Aug 11, 1:39 pm, Ole Laursen wrote:
> 1) a convenient file pointer for facilitating the upload machinery
> 2) a field for storing a file, just like storing it directly in the
> database except we put the data in the file system
No conclusion?
Here are some options
1. Apply the patch in
On Aug 12, 3:08 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick
wrote:
> One of the reasons we *don't* delete files automatically [...snip]
Just a correction: Django currently *does* delete files automatically
when a model instance is deleted.
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On Aug 12, 5:08 am, Malcolm Tredinnick
wrote:
> This is an assumption that isn't universally correct and it's
> implications appear to be vastly under-appreciated. One of the reasons
> we *don't* delete files automatically is that you cannot you know for
> certain, given no other information, tha
Hi,
I just wanted to mention there still is ticket #7048 "Support clearing
FileFields with ModelForms" [1], which also deletes files, if
configured to do so. I don't think this is particularly evil, if off
by default (which it is not in the current patch, but that's easy to
change).
This was ori
On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:39 -0700, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There are a couple of bugs open/closed about what happens when you
> upload a new file to a file field that already has a file:
>
> http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11663
> http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2983
> http:
Hi!
There are a couple of bugs open/closed about what happens when you
upload a new file to a file field that already has a file:
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11663
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2983
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4339
Progress is currently halted bec
