Manage Django Media Files automatically

How to auto delete media files in django

Django or Django Rest Framework never deletes user uploaded files (media) when you delete a record from model .

Sometimes it results in consuming more storage or production on servers .To overcome this flaw i will be using a package called django-cleanup .

Lets set it up under 2 minutes !

Installation

pip install django-cleanup

Configuration

just add django_cleanup to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (  ...
               'django_cleanup.apps.CleanupConfig',
                  )

THAT’S IT ! We Done it

BONUS NOTE !

If you want to exclude any model to not delete files when you delete a record just add below code to required model in models.py

from django_cleanup import cleanup                              
@cleanup.ignore                             
class MyModel(models.Model):                                                                     
     image = models.FileField()

If you want to read more about this package read Django Cleanup official open source Github Repo.