Delete Django ImageField and FileField records whose files are not found on the server

Question

I've recently lost some files in my media folder, and I want to delete the image field/FileField objects whose files have been removed, across all models of my application.

I've tried django-cleanup, but it appears to be doing the inverse operation, i.e. deleting files on the server whose objects have been removed from the database.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '22 at 12:57

You can write a management command for this, here is a way how to handle this

Class cleanup(BaseCommand):
    def handle(self,options):
         for obj in Files.objects.all():
             if os.path.exists(settings.MEDIA_DIR+ obj.filename): continue
             obj.delete()

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '22 at 13:07

Note that a FileField will be falsy if the file is not there, so you can use this simple solution:

for instance in ModelWithFileField.objects.all():
    if bool(instance.file_field):
        continue
    instance.delete()

You can even do it in a django shell, so you do not have to write a script for it.

Delete Django ImageField and FileField records whose files are not found on the server

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