Newbie. Installed Comfy. Says "Missing Models". Downloaded. Put in place. Still says they're missing

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I’m installing ComfyUI for the first time. When I launch the GUI, I get a popup saying “Missing Models” and prompting me to download “controlnet / sd3.5_large_controlnet_depth.safetensors” (Download button does nothing.)

Closing the popup reveals a “Model Links” node. I registered, downloaded the files, closed Comfy and placed the files in the specified locations:

C:\Users\{username]\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\models\controlnet\sd3.5_large_controlnet_depth.safetensors

C:\Users\{username]\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\models\checkpoints\sd3.5_large_fp8_scaled.safetensors

Launch Comfy again and I’m still getting the “Missing Models” popup and “Model Links” node.

What am I doing wrong? (Does it matter that I have a very old “GTX970”?)

TIA

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Your gfx card does have CUDA cores so I believe it will work.

Check under “C:\Users\[user]\Documents\ComfyUI\models” as it may be looking there for the models.

If that doesn’t work:
In the ComfyUI directory, make a copy of “extra_model_paths.yaml.example”

Rename the file “extra_model_paths.yaml” and edit it to include custom paths and drop the safe tensor files there.

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This windows installer is so confusing. All this %Appdata% and %userprofile% folders just makes it more annoying than it should be. :thinking: I just got tired of all of this and installed the Portable Version from Github. Way easier to understand and control.

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Sorry for the late reply.

I had uninstalled Comfy b/c it was taking up WAY too much room on my C: drive (which I keep small for Backup purposes) and had to reinstall it to try as you suggest.

I don’t know if it mattered, but the required “.safetensors” files I was prompted for before were saved to the same folder as the Setup file, so when I reinstalled, this time no errors. Curious.

Now I just need to figure out how to use the software. :wink:

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I have a separate NVMe drive for all my Checkpoints and LoRAs. It helps a lot to have these on a fast drive. You can add external drives to ComfyUI with “extra_model_paths.yaml” too.

Happy to hear you got it working :slightly_smiling_face:

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