Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2012-07-14 Thread -RAX-
It took me a while but I have opensourced a tool to clean the media folder from all the leftovers. It's a cron job with a simple admin gui. Also handles multiple upload folders. We have been using something similar to this internally for more than a year, and we are pretty happy about it. http

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-29 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Alex, On 03/29/2011 01:36 AM, Alex Kamedov wrote: > I think, cron jobs is an overhead in many simple cases where old > behaviour was useful and more simpler. > Why you don't want include DeletingFileField[1] in django? > > [1] https://gist.github.com/889692 Because, as mentioned above, it is

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-28 Thread Alex Kamedov
I think, cron jobs is an overhead in many simple cases where old behaviour was useful and more simpler. Why you don't want include DeletingFileField[1] in django? [1] https://gist.github.com/889692 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 AM, -RAX-

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-28 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:16 AM, -RAX- wrote: > Said so I will start implementing such a maintenance job, and I am > willing to share it so maybe we could include it in a future release > of django. Sounds good -- I look forward to seeing your code! Jacob -- You received this message because y

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-28 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, -RAX- wrote: >> One query for each model >> containing one or more FileFields is enough to build a list of the files >> that ought to exist, and any file not in that list can presumably be >> removed. > > How can I sleep at night knowing that there is a maintenance

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-28 Thread -RAX-
> One query for each model > containing one or more FileFields is enough to build a list of the files > that ought to exist, and any file not in that list can presumably be > removed. How can I sleep at night knowing that there is a maintenance cron job deleting files which can be "presumably be r

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-27 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:42 AM, -RAX- wrote: > I am referring to this: > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/#filefield-no-longer-deletes-files > Instead of preventing the data loss from happening a very usefull > feature has been removed. I'm sorry this caused an problem for you.

Re: Complains about FileField not deleting files in 1.3.

2011-03-27 Thread Carl Meyer
On 03/27/2011 06:42 AM, -RAX- wrote: > I am referring to this: > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.3/#filefield-no-longer-deletes-files > Instead of preventing the data loss from happening a very usefull > feature has been removed. Well, it does also prevent the data loss from happe