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29469	"Misleading makemigrations ""App count not be found"" error message with nested apps"	Matthew Schinckel	oliver	"I have a couple of nested apps, or apps that are not available directly in the top-level namespace.

When you use makemigrations, and pass the full dotted path to this command, the error message is somewhat misleading:


{{{
App 'integrations.systems.generic.importers' could not be found. Is it in INSTALLED_APPS?
}}}

In this case, I have that exact string in my INSTALLED_APPS, but makemigrations is expecting just the app_label. Perhaps we could improve the error message when dots are detected in the app_label, suggesting how to fix it: or even look at just the last part of the path?"	Bug	closed	Migrations	2.0	Normal	fixed			Accepted	1	0	1	0	0	0