Django migrate : doesn't create tables

Question

After some errors, I dropped my database, deleted all my migration files (I left init.py). Now, when I run

python migrate.py makemigrations   /         


        

Answer 1

First try this;

Check your migration files for the app, if you have the create model portion in your migrations file, remove it and redo migrations. I.e remove this; migrations.CreateModel( name='YourModelName', ....... .....)

(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py makemigrations appName
(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py migrate appName

Else; navigate to your database and delete all migrations for that app, you may have to drop the related tables too.

postgres=# \c db_yourdb
db_yourdb=# delete from django_migrations where app='appName';

then go to your code and;

(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py makemigrations appName
(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py migrate appName

To do fresh migrations entirely, first do the necessary deletions for migrations and droping the tables if need be then;

(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ find . -path "*/migrations/*.py" -not -name "__init__.py" -delete
(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ find . -path "*/migrations/*.pyc"  -delete

finally do;

(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py makemigrations
(venv)root@debian:~/Desktop/project$ python manage.py migrate

Read more here on how to reset migrations