Is there a way to tell if a media file still exists?

[judgej]

I'm wrapping a bunch of media into a ZIP file for download, but if the physical file of just one media item is not present, the whole thing throws an exception. What I would like to do, is to check the physical files for each media actually exist on storage, before trying to push it into the ZIP file.

I was hoping for something as simple as Spatie\MediaLibrary\MediaCollections\Models\Media::fileExists(): bool but cannot find anything like that.

Flysystem has FilesystemReader::fileExists($path) so access to this information is so, so close.

Is there a built-in way to do this that I am missing? If not, are there any short-cuts to finding out, for example getting a Flysystem reader and the path from the Media model?

[judgej]

I think this is what I needed, where $media is a single media item, so if your collection has more then one item, you would need to loop over the $model->media collection:

Storage::disk($media->disk)->exists($media->getPath()) // bool

Possiblly:

Storage::disk($media->disk)->exists($media->getPathRelativeToRoot()) // bool

I'm not sure when the two path values would differ - they are both identical for me - so I will assume one will be wrong in certain contexts. I always thought Flysystem paths already were always relative to the root of the filesystem, so 🤷 .

Again, it would be nice if this were wrapped up in $media->fileExists(), though I could imagine options to select for the conversion directory (and even individual conversion files) may be desirable to some.

Finally - the method getPath() is a bit of a misnomer. It is actually the *pathname` - the path and the filename put together. I would never have guessed that just by looking at the name.