Help with files deleting when i push a change to heroku

Heroku storage is not persistent across deploys because they are rebuilt after each deploy and so anything that isn't part of the git repo is then lost. You will need to use some sort of block storage if you want files to be available across deploys.

And other thing is if you have more than one dyno, uploaded files will not all be available in every dyno either, same goes for when you run a command in a heroku dyno.

So I am going to have to use something like S3?

yes, something that will let you store files persistently outside the heroku filesystem.

Here is a more detailed answer to your question: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/how-heroku-works#dyno-manager

Cheers.

So having some more dificulty in composer.json i have added "league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3": "dev-master"

in config/fileSystems i have changed default to 's3' 'default' => 's3', 'cloud' => 's3',

and set my details in the s3 setting in that file commited and done an heroku push composer update etc still uploading it to heroku

locally its still uploading to the public folder have i missed anywhere?

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model; use Carbon\Carbon; use App\Http\Requests; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB; use Thujohn\Twitter\Facades\Twitter;

public function handelFileUploads(Requests\FixtureUpdateRequest $request, Fixture $fixture, $name) { //get the old record $oldData = $fixture->$name; if ($request->file($name)) { $file = $request->file($name); //set paths if(($name == 'start_sheet_skeleton')||($name == 'start_sheet_official')){ $destinationPath = $fixture->zone->league->name . '/' . $fixture->zone->name . '/' . $fixture->name . '/startsheets/' ; $destinationPath = strtolower($destinationPath); //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash $destinationPath = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $destinationPath); }else{ $destinationPath = $fixture->zone->league->name . '/' . $fixture->zone->name . '/' . $fixture->name . '/results/'; $destinationPath = strtolower($destinationPath); //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash $destinationPath = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $destinationPath); } //Move Uploaded File $fileName = $file->getClientOriginalName(); $fileName = time() . '-' .preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $fileName); $file->move($destinationPath, $fileName); $path = $destinationPath . $fileName; // tweet that a file has been updated. // $this->sendFixtureUpdateTweet($fixture, $name); return $path; } else { return $oldData; } }

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/filesystem