diff --git a/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php b/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
index 5c05c6e35846..d536fd17b7ff 100644
--- a/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
+++ b/app/Jobs/Entity/CreateEntityPdf.php
@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ class CreateEntityPdf implements ShouldQueue
             ->build();
 
         //todo - move this to the client creation stage so we don't keep hitting this unnecessarily
-       // Storage::makeDirectory($path, 0775);
+        info("make dir => {$path}");
+        //Storage::makeDirectory($path, 0775);
 
         $pdf = null;
 
diff --git a/app/Jobs/Util/UploadAvatar.php b/app/Jobs/Util/UploadAvatar.php
index b9da6dd71f23..66508bc706d5 100644
--- a/app/Jobs/Util/UploadAvatar.php
+++ b/app/Jobs/Util/UploadAvatar.php
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ class UploadAvatar implements ShouldQueue
     {
 
         //make dir
+        info("avatar dir creation => ". $this->directory);
+        
         Storage::makeDirectory($this->directory, 0775);
 
         $tmp_file = sha1(time()).'.png';
diff --git a/config/filesystems.php b/config/filesystems.php
index 01a12dad13eb..26b1850eea9a 100644
--- a/config/filesystems.php
+++ b/config/filesystems.php
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ return [
 
         'public' => [
             'driver' => 'local',
-            'root' => 'storage/',
+            'root' => public_path('storage'),
+            //'root' => 'storage/',
             // 'root' => storage_path('app/public'),
             'url' => env('APP_URL').'/storage',
             'visibility' => 'public',