Do I need to keep media in separate folders to be able to delete them individually?

[chesterlaykin]

I can't delete images individually when they are being put together in a common folder (using custom path).
I keep media files in folders named as the model id.

As a side note I discovered an error in my project where in a delete method the files were not deleted physically, only the database row.
The delete method was called on the query builder object:

Media::where('id', '=', $id)->delete();

Can you verify that this is the wrong way to delete media?

When I change it into:

Media::find($id)->delete();

Now all media items are removed (including the folder itself I think), not just the specified media id file.

So this doesn't work! Does that mean that we must put the file in folders named as the media id?
I mean, I can adjust the custom path generator and add a folder with the media id - I guess that would fix it.

So that is required then?

(I use version 7.5)

[alikashfi]

sadly it seems to be yes: read the last paragraph of docs