laravel - saving and accessing an uploaded file - php

Question

I am studying some laravel code that I downloaded and I am getting some problem.
This supposed to be the functions to save,delete and download the files but the problem is.
The files are being saved in a folder named with a number on "storage\app\public\project-files\" (i.e. storage\app\public\project-files\11), both destroy and download methods are referencing different paths, I tried to change but didn't worked, download show FileNotFoundException and destroy just remove from the database but not from the folder
So is this code wrong? How It supposed to be?
I've read about using artisan:link but seems odd to me run this command every time I want upload a file to make a link
PS. I cheched the routes, so the methods are being called
Thanks
public function store(Request $request)
{
if ($request->hasFile('file')) {
$file = new ProjectFile();
$file->user_id = $this->user->id;
$file->project_id = $request->project_id;
$request->file->store('public/project-files/'.$request->project_id);
$file->filename = $request->file->getClientOriginalName();
$file->hashname = $request->file->hashName();
$file->size = $request->file->getSize();
$file->save();
$this->project = Project::find($request->project_id);
return view('project-files');
}
public function destroy($id)
{
$file = ProjectFile::find($id);
File::delete('storage/project-files/'.$file->project_id.'/'.$file->hashname);
ProjectFile::destroy($id);
$this->project = Project::find($file->project_id);
return view('project-files');
}
public function download($id) {
$file = ProjectFile::find($id);
return response()->download('storage/project-files/'.$file->project_id.'/'.$file->hashname);
}

Answer 1

You are storing files in storage so i assume you have uploaded image in the following path
project\storage\app\public\project-files
if this is the path then you can delete using
Storage::delete('public/project-files/1.JPG');
for Downlaoding file
$path= storage_path('app/public/project-files/3.JPG');
return response()->download($path);