When I save images to storage they show in the storage/app directory, but they don't show in public/storage. I also noticed that a storage/app/public directory seems to have been created which also contains everything within storage/app.
I can't work out how I managed to cause this mess, and I think it might make sense to revert these directories to how it should have been to begin with (with a new laravel project), remove any existing symlinks, and start again - does this sound like the best approach? And how would I go about doing this if I have set the symlink up incorrectly?
You can always delete the link:
cd public
rm storage
And create a new one without using the storage:link command if you need to link different locations:
\File::link(storage_path('dir1'), public_path('dir2'));
ln -s /full/path/to/storage/dir1 /full/path/to/public/dir2