is there a way to add custom addresses for the models?

[sabi3293043]

is there a way to add custom addresses for the models?

i also have automatic1111 installed and dont want to copy over everything it would be like 200gbs of models loras and stuff
and i really want to use this

[tzekeong]

maybe we can use the symbolic link?

For windows:
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -target /path/to/automatic111/model -path /path/to/comfyUi/model

For Linux:
ln -sf path/to/automatic111/model /path/to/comfyUi/model

[Duemellon]

Will this have to be typed into Powershell each time you run the GUI?
** looking into Powershell right now

[tzekeong]

the command should create a permanant link to the original model.

[Duemellon]

in case it goes wrong or needs correcting, what command should I look into to clear the New-Item?

[cgwers-2]

You might find this shell extension utility useful. It lets you create hard links to the directory with content you want another app to believe is in a different location and then place a hard link to it. It's not perfect for Comfy since a1111/invoke actually have a directory structure for models, but it does help.

[Jojo-xqt]

nice~3Q

[comfyanonymous]

Yes until I add an option to set your a1111 directory and have it auto load models/etc... from there you can use symlinks, they will work.

The ComfyUI code will search subfolders and follow symlinks so you can create a link to your model folder inside the models/checkpoints/ folder for example and it will work.

[Duemellon]

Is it possible to include this in a config-type file? a json or something, that is more intuitive for someone to go in & edit the lines?

[comfyanonymous]

https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/blob/master/extra_model_paths.yaml.example

Update the ui, copy the new ComfyUI/extra_model_paths.yaml.example to ComfyUI/extra_model_paths.yaml and edit it to set the path to your a1111 ui.

[Duemellon]

for people who need a little more nudge in that direction:

The original looks like --
a111:
base_path: path/to/stable-diffusion-webui/
checkpoints: models/Stable-diffusion

What you change is
base_path: path/to/stable-diffusion-webui/
to become
base_path: c:/stable-diffusion-webui/

If your stable-diffusion-webui is right off the C: drive. Mine was on the E: and I had changed my folder name to SD-WEBUI so it would be
base_path: e:/sd-webui/

[comfyanonymous]

make sure you update comfyui with the update/update_comfyui_only.bat or update/update_comfyui.bat or git pull depending on which version you have.

[iMDeadalus]

Just a question, if the ComfyUI is on an external hard drive, and the drive changes every time i plug into a computer. How would you set that in the yaml. I can't hard path the c:/ is there a way to be reference within a folder regardless of the drive? And just to add i am not a coder so please be gentle thanks.

[Humanoidme]

Can two or more paths be added. Example: one path being the existing A1111 directory and another one being the ComfyUI's ?

[NPDX909]

WHAT LINE NUMBER IN THE FILE DO YOU EDIT <<< PLEASE and THANK YOU there are literally THREE TIMES where "base_path" appears, use line numbers, please. Thank you.

[GrimblyGorn]

This mostly works well. I did have to change it some to accommodate the secondary location for Loras in the extension folder. I also tried adding the checkpoint folder to the vaes so the .vae.pt vaes could be included as well. But i'm not sure how or if such filtering/wildcard behavior is an option for these yaml files.

This is what i have so far:

a111:
    base_path: /SD/stable-diffusion-webui/

    checkpoints: models/Stable-diffusion
    configs: models/Stable-diffusion
    vae: |
        models/VAE
        models/Stable-diffusion/*.vae.pt
    loras: |
        models/Lora
        extensions/sd-webui-additional-networks/models/lora
    upscale_models: |
                  models/ESRGAN
                  models/SwinIR
    embeddings: embeddings
    controlnet: models/ControlNet

Other than the wildcard being invalid and that folder ignored, it works rather well.

One additional point though, that likely applies to any of these loaders. When you have 1,300+ Loras it's very slow to scroll through. The up/down keys do nothing and scrolling with the mouse wheel is very very slow for such a massive list. It would be handy if that could be improved some and possibly some keyboard keys added to those list views as well.

[cgwers-2]

Scrollbars

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/tk_scrollbar.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ijKnxkaoHE

Or: https://github.com/Akascape/CTkScrollableDropdown

An accordion tree in the drop-down to keep sub-directories collapsed until clicked would be really great, too.

[NeedsMoar]

ComfyUI-Custom-Scripts has menu-per-subdirectory for LoRA and Checkpoint loaders as well as image previews (create yourself or set them from CivitAI). The only problem I've found with it is that any LoRAs / Checkpoints in subdirectories use the relative path as the model name and don't perform further searching for it, so if you ever reorganize you'll have to re-select all of your LoRAs from the correct paths when you load an old workflow.

Similarly any workflow you load that expects everything to be in the root checkpoint / lora path will need them re-selected.

[Skettalee]

yeah but what about clipvision models where do you have them stored in auto1111 to put in comfui? Also in the extra_model_paths.yaml there is now a Comfyui section to put im guessing models from another comfyui models folder.

My folders for Stable Diffusion have gotten extremely huge. 400 GB's at this point and i would like to break things up by atleast taking all the models and placing them on another drive. But will that make the generation of things slower if it has to grab the model on another drive. And most important, yall talking about symbolic links and junctions. Could I have models on another drive and then junction them to the real location they need to be or is just ediitng that extra model folder and putting all my model directories work best?

[nothingness6]

I changed the path of yaml file, but it didn't work. Here is the line that I changed :

base_path: P:\AI_Tools\StabilityMatrix-win-x64\Data\Models\StableDiffusion\

Is it anything wrong?

[DanHues]

running into the same problem with A1111 and comfy being installed on a secondary drive. Did you find a solution to this?

[nothingness6]

Nope

[laelhalawani]

Optimally there would be a model management library that works alongside ComfyUI and provides configs for all main uis.

[laelhalawani]

Does this support relative paths?
Can I specify any structure for otherUI?

Here's my file structure

- image_generation
  - ComfyUI
    - extra_model_paths.yaml

  - sd-webui
  - my_models
    - checkpoints
      - sdxl1.safetensors
    - vae
    - lora

In yaml file I commented out everything, leaving only

other_ui:
   base_path: ../my_models
   checkpoints: checkpoints
   vae: vae
   loras: loras

I restarted the main.py, models are not being detected.

[laelhalawani]

For anyone looking for an answer, had to update the path to absolute and it worked.
And yes you can use this to map your own file structure to ComfyUI, including only what you want to add.

so in my case

DOESN'T WORK:

other_ui:
   base_path: ../my_models
   checkpoints: checkpoints
   vae: vae
   loras: loras

WORKS FINE:

other_ui:
   base_path: /home/lael/image_generation/my_models
   checkpoints: checkpoints
   vae: vae
   loras: loras

[vootox]

Not only the models but you can network ComfyUI installs by sharing Custom Nodes
https://www.magnopus.com/blog/sharing-models-and-custom-nodes-in-comfyui

However, my goal is to have multiple Comfy intalls on the same system with each having a restricted set from Custom Nodes Share for specialised tasks. I'd like to heed those 'conflict' warnings when installing new Custom Nodes. The link above helps me do it.

Currenly my setup is inefficient with posssilbe conflicting nodes. I'm trialing Forge + one ComfyUI in SM (Stabilty Matrix) which I'm hesitant to include my two other ComfyUI installs so I keep them seperate. When it comes to particularly stubborn Custom Node installs require a manual 'nudge' to succeed I know I can do it with Comfy on its own (not inside Stabilty Matrix). My dilema is I also have two ComfyUI's external to SM. It may be convenient to have all the models for everything in SM and all the Custom Nodes as a share possibly also inside SM, but I'm not sure still deciding. SM seems like a promising solution but for me I'm afraid some conflicts may be more difficult to resolve within SM so I'm happy keeping at least one ComfyUI isolated from SM while sharing common resources.