title: File not found at path in laravel 5.2
body: <p>I have an image within the public/badges directory called 1.png - I am trying to use the Storage library in laravel but keep getting the following error even though the file does exist at that location:</p>
  
  <p>// Error </p>
  
  <pre><code>FileNotFoundException in Filesystem.php line 381:
  File not found at path: Users/gk/Sites/mysite/public/badges/1.png
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>// Code</p>
  
  <pre><code>$filePath = 'badges/1.png';
  $path = public_path()."/".$filePath
  Storage::disk('local')-&gt;get($path);
  dd($contents);
  </code></pre>