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

Here is an app that deletes orphan files by default: django-smartfields. It will remove files whenever:

• field value was replaced with a new one (either uploaded or set manually)
• field is cleared through the form (in case that field is not required, of course)
• the model instance itself containing the field is deleted.

It is possible to turn that cleanup feature off using an argument: ImageField(keep_orphans=True) on per field basis, or globally in settings SMARTFIELDS_KEEP_ORPHANS = True.

from django.db import models

from smartfields import fields

class MyModel(models.Model):
    image = fields.ImageField()
    document = fields.FileField()