Make 'collectstatic' find updated files

Question

Is there a way to make python manage.py collectstatic find updated static files? Currently, it is properly searching STATICFILES_DIRS and finding where I have my static files, but it only uploads new ones. If I modify a static file, it does not detect this. Does Django do this so we have to delete each file first, or is there an easy solution?

Answer 1

UPDATE:

Disclaimer - This issue has to do with external hosting on Amazon's S3 Storage

I had simply forgot to include AWS_PRELOAD_METADATA = True in my settings.py file. Adding this setting in fixed the issue of collectstatic only finding new files. Also, I saw a major speed increase in syncing between the server and Amazon's S3.

If you are using S3 for storage, I found this answer to be quite helpful.