Error creating new content types. Please make sure contenttypes is migrated before trying to migrate apps individually

Question

I am trying to migrate from Django 1.6 to Django 1.8. I was using South for managing migrations in Django 1.6. I have suc

Answer 1

I think this has something to do with "The removal of ContentType.name", according to this. But somehow it doesnt work.

By manually removing the column name from 'django_content_type' table. Eg.

'ALTER TABLE django_content_type DROP COLUMN name'

I was able to apply the migrations. Maybe this can get you a little bit further at least.