# Add to your settings file CONTENT_TYPES = ['image', 'video'] # 2.5MB - 2621440 # 5MB - 5242880 # 10MB - 10485760 # 20MB - 20971520 # 50MB - 5242880 # 100MB 104857600 # 250MB - 214958080 # 500MB - 429916160 MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE = "5242880" #Add to a form containing a FileField and change the field names accordingly. from django.template.defaultfilters import filesizeformat from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ from django.conf import settings def clean_content(self): content = self.cleaned_data['content'] content_type = content.content_type.split('/')[0] if content_type in settings.CONTENT_TYPES: if content._size > settings.MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE: raise forms.ValidationError(_('Please keep filesize under %s. Current filesize %s') % (filesizeformat(settings.MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE), filesizeformat(content._size))) else: raise forms.ValidationError(_('File type is not supported')) return content