Index: django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py =================================================================== --- django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py (revision 11027) +++ django/core/management/commands/loaddata.py (working copy) @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ if has_bz2: compression_types['bz2'] = bz2.BZ2File - app_fixtures = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(app.__file__), 'fixtures') for app in get_apps()] + app_fixtures = [os.path.join(os.path.dirname(app.__file__.rsplit('models', 1)[0]), 'fixtures') + for app in get_apps()] for fixture_label in fixture_labels: parts = fixture_label.split('.')