Set custom models folder on initial(first) launch

[davehornik]

Let's say there's someone like me trying this repo and I have all the models in AUTOMATICs repo folder.
I was wondering if it's possible to add prompt asking if there's a models folder already?

To prevent wasting space/time downloading again the default pruned sd1.5.
(I've got 1gig dl speed and free hdd for this, but some folks are not that lucky)
I guess there's a lot people coming over from A1111 to test this.
It is not that big of a deal to copy/move it over. It's more like QoL thing that can help some people 🤷‍♂️

[vladmandic]

you have two options:

• use --ckpt to load specific checkpoint and then from UI set model paths to be same as in A1111
• use --model-dir to point /models to be same as in A1111

[matbee-eth]

command is --models-dir for any readers copying and pasting

[Soulreaver90]

I’ve been reinstalling the repo for testing so I have an automated process. I’m on Linux so I delete the models folder that gets created and create a symbolic link of the auto1111 models folder to vlad’s folder. ln -s source destination
The same can be done on windows, I use it to point some of my folders to my second larger drive for storage.