Python Django sees old migrations but everything was deleted

I cleared all my database, even created new with different name, deleted all migrations and migrations folder in every app of my django project, cleared all images, containers, volumes and builds in my Docker. But when I am running
python manage.py showmigrations

it shows me my old migrations, but I have no idea where does it finds them, because I deleted everything I could.
and when I am running
python manage.py makemigrations
it returns me message "No changes detected"

I even changed database name to new one.

I deleted everything and just wanted to start from zero, but somehow it finds old migrations that doesn't even exist. enter image description here

delete all migration files (except for init.py)

then clear cache (run this command on your terminal where your django project is)

find . -path "*/__pycache__/*" -delete

Drop and Recreate the Database if need be

Reset Docker Environment

then make migration

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Django save a table on database with the migrations, you can delete this table, but study before to make sure are you doing.

Django uses a database table called django_migrations to store information about the migrations. If python manage.py showmigrations still shows the migrations after you droped the database then you could check the following:

  1. Maybe you droped another database
  2. Maybe the django_migrations table is in other database (duplicated databases or other weird stuff)
  3. Some kind of caching problem, as others mentioned, delete the *.pyc __pycache__ files

You could also try faking the migrations. If the db was not actually dropped, you are going to have errors. It will be a confirmation that the database was not correctly droped.

python manage.py migrate --fake <app_name> zero

Django stores migration history in table djnago_migrations in DB, that's why you're seeing this error

First of all delete all your migrations, you can use this following command

  find . -path "*/migrations/*.py" -not -name "__init__.py" -delete

Then unistall django and the again install it. Once it's done open your python db shell and delete migrations table from your DB and then create new fresh migrations and then migrate

python manage.py dbshell

DROP TABLE django_migrations;

python3 manage.py makemigrations

python3 manage.py migrate

This is the most effective way I found out to get rid out of this error. Note Just be cautious while doing this take your DB backup first before doing this

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