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| author | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2012-10-03 06:58:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2012-10-03 17:44:14 -0400 |
| commit | b1462e0a36bc6bb2c221bda107da74a6381b9675 (patch) | |
| tree | 1262cedcc75612e8ad31c7fb31db663146b84023 /docs | |
| parent | cf482d6e2a322a8c84570ae282b774fa09491c98 (diff) | |
[1.4.X] Fixed #18413 - Noted that a model's files are not deleted when the model is deleted. Thanks lawgon for the report.
Backport of 1c03b23567 from master
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt index cca6ec51dc..c8b9db33f6 100644 --- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt +++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt @@ -672,6 +672,11 @@ the field. Note: This method will close the file if it happens to be open when The optional ``save`` argument controls whether or not the instance is saved after the file has been deleted. Defaults to ``True``. +Note that when a model is deleted, related files are not deleted. If you need +to cleanup orphaned files, you'll need to handle it yourself (for instance, +with a custom management command that can be run manually or scheduled to run +periodically via e.g. cron). + ``FilePathField`` ----------------- |