On 5/16/06, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/16/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jay Parlar wrote: > > > > >Hmm... So let me get this straight... When someone does an upload via > > >my form, Django *temporarily* stores it in my uploads directory, with > > >the "_" at the end of the filename, right? > > > > > No. It tries to save the file with the given name and appends '_' only > > when there are already files with this filename. It's not temporary. > >
Um, shouldn't it rename the old file (appending the '_') and then save the new file with the filename (less the '_')? Or is that what you meant to say? > > Alright, let me see if I understand it this time: If you upload a file > that's already been uploaded, then Django will lose the association to > the old one, and it will essentially be sitting orphaned on the disk? > > For my use case, I actually want to keep every version of every file > ever uploaded to the server. > If it works the way I suggest above, then one could conceivably append a date/timestamp rather than an underscore, preserving all previous versions of a file. I haven't checked if it's currently available, but a setting to set what should be appended would be nice. Then one could write some simple python code that scans the upload dir and lists all versions of the files. -- ---- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
