About Deleting a Directory and its Files from Media
Use the following function to delete a directory under media root:
def delete_directory(directory_path):
import os
from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
directories, files = default_storage.listdir(directory_path)
for item in directories:
item_path = os.path.join(directory_path, item)
if default_storage.exists(item_path):
# Recursively delete subdirectories
delete_directory(item_path)
for item in files:
item_path = os.path.join(directory_path, item)
if default_storage.exists(item_path):
# Delete files
default_storage.delete(item_path)
if default_storage.exists(directory_path):
# Finally, delete the empty directory
default_storage.delete(directory_path)
Then you would call it like so:
delete_directory(f"profiles/{username}")
It works not only with a simple file system, but also with Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, or a similar remote storage when using django-storages.
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