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

Before updating the model instance, you can use the delete method of FileField object. For example, if the FileField or ImageField is named as photo and your model instance is profile, then the following will remove the file from disk

profile.photo.delete(False)

For more clarification, here is the django doc

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.fields.files.FieldFile.delete