I'm using Django 1.10 and am getting the following error message from collectstatic:
ValueError: The file 'helpdesk/"images/ui-icons_555555_256x240.png"' could not be found with [...ManifestStaticFilesStorage].
I'm wondering if the problem is the apparently extraneous quotes in the filename. I would expect the filename to be:
helpdesk/images/ui-icons_555555_256x240.png <-- No quotes
not:
helpdesk/"images/ui-icons_555555_256x240.png" <-- Extraneous quotes
Should the filename with extraneous quotes be expected to work or am I correct in assuming that the root cause of this problem is a badly formed filename? If it's a badly formed filename, where should I go from here?
P.S. I've double checked and the PNG file is indeed located in the helpdesk/images folder. "helpdesk" is the name of the app that includes jquery-ui but I don't think this is a problem with the app.
It seems that Django's collectstatic chokes on url patterns that it finds in the comments of jquery-ui-1.12.0.min.css. Specifically, strings like
url(%22images%2Fui-icons_555555_256x240.png%22)
are matched and then processed into bogus file names like
helpdesk/"images/ui-icons_555555_256x240.png"
The collectstatic error went away after I deleted the offending comments from jquery-ui-1.12.0.min.css.