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
17744	override_settings has no effect on FileSystemStorage()	Michael van Tellingen	Claude Paroz	"Since FileSystemStorage() copies the value of settings.MEDIA_ROOT to self.location on init. This means that changes to settings.MEDIA_ROOT have no effect.

I think the best solution here is to listen for the settings_changed signal and update the location value if the default value (which is settings.MEDIA_ROOT) is used. Unfortunately this cannot be solved when passing a custom location value based on the MEDIA_ROOT.

Otherwise this should be clearly documented. 

I could create the patch if there is interest for this.



"	Bug	closed	File uploads/storage	1.4-beta-1	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0