id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 20660 Filefield.delete() on empty field delete MEDIA_ROOT stanislas.guerra@… Claude Paroz "Maybe this is because I use a symlink in my Apache configuration to serve the media : {{{ $ ls -l /var/www/mysite.domain.com/documents/ -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 474 1 févr. 15:27 maintenance.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 26 juin 15:02 media -> /data/media_mysite drwxr-xr-x 6 myuser www-data 4096 16 mai 12:01 static $ ls -l /data/media_mysite total 8 drwxrwsr-x 3 myuser www-data 4096 13 févr. 10:13 stuffs drwxrwsr-x 3 myuser www-data 4096 13 févr. 10:00 other_stuffs }}} But when I call delete() on an ImageField, if that very field is empty, the symlink is wipped out! {{{ $ python manage.py shell In [1]: from myproject.myapp.models import MyModel In [2]: obj = MyModel.objects.get(euid=""21439011"") In [3]: obj.my_file Out[3]: In [4]: obj.my_file.delete() $ ls -l /var/www/mysite.domain.com/documents/ -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 474 1 févr. 15:27 maintenance.html drwxr-xr-x 6 myproject www-data 4096 16 mai 12:01 static }}} Should not an exception be raised here instead ? " Bug closed File uploads/storage dev Normal fixed FileField delete Ready for checkin 1 0 0 0 0 0