Hi, I think it's designed to do that. See the behaviour of the save/get_available_name methods on core/files/storage.py (in the django source). Maybe you can write your own storage that overrides this (never tried it, but should work).
Nuno 2010/5/26 Ricardo Bánffy <rban...@gmail.com>: > Hi folks. > > I want to prevent the duplication of uploaded images. For that, I am > using the upload_to property of ImageField set to a callable that > computes the md5 hash of the uploaded file data and returns a file > name. This should work _but_ when I save the model, the filename I > gave back in the function is getting a "_1", "_2" and so on suffix to > prevent my efforts at deduplication. > > http://dpaste.com/199576/ > > Anyone has had a similar problem? > > I understand I'll have to take care of other problems too, like > preventing the deletion of files that are referenced by more than one > ImageFile and could do something to prevent the actual overwriting of > the same data on the same file as before, but that's a start. > > > -- > Ricardo Bánffy > http://www.dieblinkenlights.com > http://twitter.com/rbanffy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
