Django 1.7 migrations won't recreate a dropped

Question

Using Django 1.7 migrations.

I accidentally dropped a table in my database. I assumed that by running migration again this would recreate the table but no, Django states "No migrations to apply".

How to I get Django to recreate the table?

I have run:

> makemigrations - No changes detected
> migrate - No migrations to apply.

I have tried making a change to the model and running a new migration and it simply states that "Table 'x.test_customer' doesn't exist" which is correct, but what I was hoping it that it would recreate the table.

Answer 1

In my case in django 2.0.2 for recreating dropped table I needed to comment my models in myapp and then migrate with --fake and uncomment my models and migrate without --fake A little different from raul answer:

1. Delete your migrations files in your desired app
2. Thanks to raul answer: In the database: DELETE FROM django_migrations WHERE app = 'app_name'.
3. comment codes in models.py and all this models usage in views, signals and etc (to prevent error).
4. python manage.py makemigrations YOUR_APP_NAME
5. python manage.py migrate --fake
6. un-comment what you commented in step 3
7. python manage.py makemigrations YOUR_APP_NAME
8. migrate without --fake: python manage.py migrate

This should solve some users problem.

Answer 2

Another solution I've found and works perfectly:

In django 1.7:

1. Delete your migrations folder

2. In the database: DELETE FROM django_migrations WHERE app = 'app_name'.

   You could alternatively just truncate this table.

3. python manage.py makemigrations

4. python manage.py migrate --fake

In django 1.9.5:

1. Delete your migrations folder

2. In the database: DELETE FROM django_migrations WHERE app = 'app_name'.

   You could alternatively just truncate this table.

3. python manage.py makemigrations app_name

4. python manage.py migrate

This works 100% for me!

Answer 3

Go to your database and find the table django_migrations. Delete all the rows which have app equals your app name.

Then do a makemigrations & migrate will work.