Laravel-5 Deleting a folder or file does not work - laravel

Question

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Good;
use App\Image;
class testpost extends Controller
{
//
public function execute(Request $request){
$file = "/Users/local/Desktop/111/2.png";
//$folder = "/Users/local/Desktop/111";
//unlink($file);
dd(Storage::delete($file));
//$status_delete_file=Storage::deleteDirectory($folder);
}
}
I'm trying delete file "/Users/local/Desktop/111/2.png". And Storage does not remove this file or folder 111. No errors, always returns "false". Tried to remove file through standard function PHP "unlink"
unlink($file)
All well removes!
Help me please.
Laravel 5.4
PHP 7.1.1

Answer 1

Laravel Storage Facade used for managing file in $root directory of your Laravel filesystem disk.
'disks' => [
'local' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app'),
],
'public' => [
'driver' => 'local',
'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
'visibility' => 'public',
],
....
],
Please refer to this documentation. If your disk is local then $root directory will be storage/app, or if it public then $root directory will be storage/app/public. All operation: create, move, delete will do inside the defined $root directory.
By the way Laravel use league/flysystem package to handle Storage operation. You can see in the package source code what is Storage::delete() actualy doing.
// flysystem/src/Adapter/Local.php
/**
* #inheritdoc
*/
public function delete($path)
{
$location = $this->applyPathPrefix($path);
return unlink($location);
}
The delete function actually call unlink function. But adding directory prefix before do the operation.
So example: if a you want to delete file uploads/image.jpg in your public disk storage, you just need to call
Storage::delete('uploads/image.jpg')