Add option to regenerate media path

[inmanturbo]

I understand if this is considered a niche case (As currently the path is only configurable by creating a custom PathGenerator).

So here is the issue. I have a large number of media being stored in a private location (network mount in the Kubernetes chain). The path is

NETDRIVE/related-model-belongs-to-slug/model->getKey()/media->getKey()/{media [conversions/]}

ie - account/sourced-event[accounting transaction]/media/
So in class implementing PathGenerator I have

    protected function getBasePath(Media $media): string
    {
        // First we will check if our model  has its
        // own method for retrieving media.
        if (method_exists($media->model, 'getMediaBasePath')) {
            return $media->model->getMediaBasePath($media);
        }

        return $media->getKey();
    }

And in model I have

    public function registerMediaCollections(): void
    {
        $this->addMediaCollection('receipts')
            ->useDisk('receipts')
            ->useFallbackUrl(url(asset('storage/stock-images/no-image-available.jpg')))
            ->registerMediaConversions(function (Media $media) {
                $this
                    ->addMediaConversion('thumb')
                    ->height(200);
            });
        //add options


        // you can define as many collections as needed
        $this->addMediaCollection('invoices')
            ->useDisk('invoices')
            ->useFallbackUrl(url(asset('storage/stock-images/no-image-available.jpg')))
            ->registerMediaConversions(function (Media $media) {
                $this
                    ->addMediaConversion('thumb')
                    ->height(200);
            });
        //add options

    }

    public function getMediaBasePath(Media $media): string
    {

        return config('settings.accounts.payables.file_root', 'Payables')
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
            . $media->model->account->business->slug
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
            . $media->model->getKey()
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
            . $media->getKey();
    }

If I need to change the thumbnail size or something like that I can do this easily with

php artisan media-library:regenerate

However now accounting request the model folder use another field value instead of id (a unique reference number field) so that they can more easily find them for print-copying in batches from their network drive (On native desktop, outside of web application), i.e.

NETDRIVE/related-model-belongs-to-slug/model->reference_no/media->getKey()/{media [conversions/]}

or

    public function getMediaBasePath(Media $media): string
    {

        return config('settings.accounts.payables.file_root', 'Payables')
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
            . $media->model->account->business->slug
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
-           . $media->model->getKey()
+           . $media->model->refrence_no
            . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR
            . $media->getKey();
    }

So now I need to find a way to change file path for all media in collection. Then what if they want to change again, or change back? Must be easy to change at any time during maintenance periods (for over 1,000 media)
In test system I tried

php artisan media-library:regenerate

Hoping (wishfully) maybe it would regenerate path with media. Instead it just deletes all media and warns that the new path is not found.

Something like

php artisan media-library:regenerate [--with-path]

would be nice as too many forks,macros etc. makes maintenance more difficult.

Thank you for taking the time to read and again I understand perfectly if you don't want to add this feature.

Best,
Keven