[Answer]-Referencing relative directories outside of project

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BASE_DIR + '../../../Data' does not contains appropriate separate in between. Use os.path.join there, too.

BTW, os.path.join accepts multiple arguments. So you can write as follow:

import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
DATA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../../../Data', 'MyAppData')

# To get absolute path
DATA_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../../../Data', 'MyAppData'))

To access the DATA_ROOT in views, import settings in the view:

from django.conf import settings

# Do something with `settings.DATA_ROOT`

UPDATE

If you use Python 3.4+, you can use pathlib:

DATA_ROOT = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[3] / 'Data' / 'MyAppData'
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