How to delete old image when update ImageField?

Question

I\'m using Django to create a stock photo site, I have an ImageField in my model, the problem is that when the user updates the image field, the original image file isn\'t d

Answer 1

Use this custom save method in your model:

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    try:
        this = MyModelName.objects.get(id=self.id)
        if this.MyImageFieldName != self.MyImageFieldName:
            this.MyImageFieldName.delete()
    except: pass
    super(MyModelName, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

It works for me on my site. This problem was bothering me as well and I didn't want to make a cleanup script instead over good bookkeeping in the first place. Let me know if there are any problems with it.