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Asked: 2026-06-02T17:59:04+00:00

I noticed that django-storages (or perhaps it’s Django’s storage API itself) overwrites files with

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I noticed that django-storages (or perhaps it’s Django’s storage API itself) overwrites files with the same name. This is a problem for me as my site allows user uploads, so I need to ensure that files are never overwritten.

Ideally I’d like to be able to pass a file name to the storage backend from the view level, but I’m struggling to find an elegant way to do this. I’d be equally happy if there’s a switch somewhere where I can just do something like overwrite=False and have the backend come up with its own alternative name.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are using the s3boto backend not the old s3 backend in django-storages then you can change this using the AWS_S3_FILE_OVERWRITE setting: https://bitbucket.org/david/django-storages/src/83fa2f0ba20c/storages/backends/s3boto.py#cl-43

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