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I am stuck with this issue: I had some migration problems and I tried many times and on the way, I deleted migrations and tried again and even deleted one table in db. there is no data in db, so I don't have to fear. But now if I try syncdb it is not creating the table I deleted manually.

Honestly, I get really stuck every time with this such kind of migration issues.

What should I do to create the tables again?

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    Can you add you settings.py file and may be one of your models file and the project structure from root to one models.py file Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 13:56
  • If you are not worried aobut data, create a new database and start afresh Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 14:06
  • @karthikr, creating new db is a rude solution, is there really no solution here? Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 14:07
  • why is it rude? You dont care about the data, and when you do syncdb, you start afresh anyways. Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 14:11
  • @karthikr, you are right. but now i did syncdb --all. it worked now. but i dont know why it did :) Commented Aug 1, 2013 at 14:12

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To be sure you are deleting south history and to use syncdb as if no south exists, you have to delete migrations in two places:

  1. In the database: remove tables created by south
  2. Migration files: remove folders used by south. They are like "app_name/migrations"

If you don't need any data in your database (because it is testing for example), instead of remove only south tables, y recommend to do a complete reset. The commando to do that is

python manage.py reset_db --router=default

Hope it helps!

Some extra help

Generally, when you use syncdb and south is in your INSTALLED_APPS you get a message saying that some apps won't be synced and that you have to use migrations. Try to do a syncdb and look at the apps that can't be synced. If there are some of them, remove the "migrations" folder inside that apps and make a syncdb again. The app should't appear again in the list that can't be synced.

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are you using south?

If you are, there is a migration history database that exists. Make sure to delete the row mentionnaing the migration you want to run again.

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i deleted all migrations
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Try to use the comand reset in the app, something like that:

python manage.py reset my_app
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i did, it deletes only data and doesnot create tables
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Try renaming the migration file and running python manage.py syncdb.

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