Yes, it was that easy. I don't know why, but I've been banging my head against the wall on this for a while and never thought of this solution.
One thing that would really help a ton is more/better examples about file-handling in django. I've spent more hours on this single feature reading & rereading the docs trying to figure out how things work. A few good examples would have saved me tons of time. Who do I talk to about possibly contributing to the docs? On Mar 14, 3:10 am, Jumpfroggy <rocketmonk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you could do it manually. first use os.rename to rename the file on the > > disk, > > and then update your model instance with the new name and save it. > > I think this is what I'm missing. What's the code for this? Can I > just do: > > os.rename(model.file1.name, new_filename) > model.file1.name = new_filename > model.save() > > Is that enough? I'll go try that now. The problem is that the > documentation leaves it unclear whether simply changing the name and > saving the model is kosher. I guess I'd expect a more complicated > method, but if that works then great. -- 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.
