#  Comfyui installation failed

**URL:** <https://forum.comfy.org/t/comfyui-installation-failed/1496>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Tags:** issue, settings\
**Created:** [February 14, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.comfy.org/t/comfyui-installation-failed/1496 "2025-02-14T01:16:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![zouzhifuh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7cd45c/32.png) [@zouzhifuh](https://forum.comfy.org/u/zouzhifuh)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.comfy.org/t/comfyui-installation-failed/1496/1 "2025-02-14T01:16:45Z")

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[2025-02-13 15:05:41.063] [error] usage: main.py [-h] [–listen [IP]] [–port PORT] [–tls-keyfile TLS\_KEYFILE]  
[–tls-certfile TLS\_CERTFILE] [–enable-cors-header [ORIGIN]]  
[–max-upload-size MAX\_UPLOAD\_SIZE]  
[–base-directory BASE\_DIRECTORY]  
[–extra-model-paths-config PATH [PATH …]]  
[–output-directory OUTPUT\_DIRECTORY]  
[–temp-directory TEMP\_DIRECTORY]  
[–input-directory INPUT\_DIRECTORY] [–auto-launch]  
[–disable-auto-launch] [–cuda-device DEVICE\_ID]  
[–cuda-malloc | --disable-cuda-malloc]  
[–force-fp32 | --force-fp16]  
[–fp32-unet | --fp64-unet | --bf16-unet | --fp16-unet | --fp8\_e4m3fn-unet | --fp8\_e5m2-unet]  
[–fp16-vae | --fp32-vae | --bf16-vae] [–cpu-vae]  
[–fp8\_e4m3fn-text-enc | --fp8\_e5m2-text-enc | --fp16-text-enc | --fp32-text-enc]  
[–force-channels-last] [–directml [DIRECTML\_DEVICE]]  
[–oneapi-device-selector SELECTOR\_STRING]  
[–disable-ipex-optimize]  
[–preview-method [none,auto,latent2rgb,taesd]]  
[–preview-size PREVIEW\_SIZE]  
[–cache-classic | --cache-lru CACHE\_LRU]  
[–use-split-cross-attention | --use-quad-cross-attention | --use-pytorch-cross-attention | --use-sage-attention]  
[–disable-xformers]  
[–force-upcast-attention | --dont-upcast-attention]  
[–gpu-only | --highvram | --normalvram | --lowvram | --novram | --cpu]  
[–reserve-vram RESERVE\_VRAM]  
[–default-hashing-function {md5,sha1,sha256,sha512}]  
[–disable-smart-memory] [–deterministic] [–fast]  
[–dont-print-server] [–quick-test-for-ci]  
[–windows-standalone-build] [–disable-metadata]  
[–disable-all-custom-nodes] [–multi-user]  
[–verbose [{DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}]]  
[–log-stdout] [–front-end-version FRONT\_END\_VERSION]  
[–front-end-root FRONT\_END\_ROOT]  
[–user-directory USER\_DIRECTORY]  
[–disable-compres-response-body]  
main.py: error: argument --user-directory: D:\文档\ComfyUI\user is not a valid directory.

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**Author:** ![rhuang](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.comfy.org/rhuang/32/21_2.png) [@rhuang](https://forum.comfy.org/u/rhuang)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.comfy.org/t/comfyui-installation-failed/1496/2 "2025-02-14T01:17:25Z")

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Can you try installing in a directory that does not have Chinese characters?