I’ve been having issues with ComfyUI Desktop picking up the Insightface models for PuLID, InstantID, ReActor etc.
Reinstalled ComfyUI recently and have been getting errors when trying to run InstantID or PuLID which related to it not being able to find Antelopev2. I’d checked and they were in models\insightface\models\antelopev2. Tried the ReActor node but the swap_model field was empty and showing undefined.
Deleted the insightface model model subfolder and installed the 5 .onnx antelopev2 files and it recreated the folder structure correctly, but again same issue.
I just happened to be looking in appdata at the ComfyUI folders within there and noticed a models\insightface folder in there, so copied the model files into it and refreshed and it worked. Shouldn’t have happened and I don’t know why it’s using the appdata version when it uses my main models folder for everything else, but figured it’s worth sharing the info if anyone else has the same issue.
Update: Just tried PuLID but the model loader wasn’t showing any files. Copied the PuLID models into the AppData version of models\PuLID and refreshed and they showed up afterwards.
We’re working with extension authors to slowly get this resolved. The reason you’re seeing a discrepancy is simply that some custom methods have been implemented to determine the models directory.
Took me several days to figure it out and thought I was losing the plot lol. Don’t know how many time I checked the insightface folder in case I had a typo.
My Mac’s the first 16" Intel MBP so haven’t even tried Comfy on it, but a Mac’s equivalent of AppData is the user library > Application Support. It would be worth seeing if there’s a Comfy folder in there.
Thanks. I did check - but there’s nothing in there. I have it working on another installation inside an app called Pinokio. Just annoyed I can’t get it working here, but it’s not going to keep me awake later.
I don’t know if it will be of any use to you but took a look at a YouTube video for a macOS install of desktop to see where it shows the System Locations on a Mac and it shows the Application Folder. Perhaps it’s hidden? If you haven’t tried it, cmd+shift+. will show hidden files and folders, and then use the same combo to hide them again.
As it also mentions the app you could try right clicking on it and choosing show package contents and have a look around, just don’t delete anything in there, otherwise you might break it.