[Django]-Upload_to attribute seems not to be used while saving a FileField

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upload_to is used for uploading, You’re assigning the string name directly. upload_to takes action only when you create a FileField object (by uploading from a form).

You can read the documentation here

👤karthikr

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upload_to is a directory relative to your project root where the files you upload are meant to be stored. But you are not assigning it a file, you are assigning it a string, which seems to be causing your FileField to assume you have a file named some_file.pdf in your MEDIA_ROOT.

Repeat: assigning a filename (string) makes FileField to ignore the path defined in upload_to and takes the given string as the real path.

Good luck 🙂

👤Gerard

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