Greetings Having an ImageField object in my Foo model as such: class Foo(models.Model): name

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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T12:33:10+00:00 2026-05-15T12:33:10+00:00

Greetings
Having an ImageField object in my Foo model as such:

class Foo(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to='foobar', blank=True, null=True)

I want Foo to disable to delete the uploaded photo once a Foo object is deleted and a specific . How can I do this?

Ie:

If self.name == "foo":
    #skip deleting the image from the harddisk.

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-15T12:33:10+00:00

Editorial Team

the best thing is to write a custom File Storage:

override the delete method and set it the like described in

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