Re: Filefield uploads in django admin

The default behavior of FileSystemStorage is, "If a file with name already exists, an underscore plus a random 7 character alphanumeric string is appended to the filename before the extension." Do you want to always overwrite existing files if a file with that name already exists? That's a bit dangerous, but you can accomplish it by writing a custom storage.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/files/storage/#django.core.files.storage.Storage.get_available_name

On Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 10:32:16 AM UTC-4, Andy Cheesman wrote:

Hi everyone

I've a problem using filefields in the admin module.I've a standard model which is has a FileField (which I use to upload pdfs)

When I'm in the administration console and attempt to upload a pdf, the filename is modified from name.pdf to name_XXXX.pdf. I would like the uploaded file to keep the original name!

I've looked around at CRSF issues with django and they usually suggest @csrf_exempt in the views.py, which won't work in this situation. 

I know this is information light but I didn't want to spam the list with lots of pointless information - If anyone has any starting points, I would happily provide further useful information

Yours 

Andy 

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