Feature Request - Ability to set custom directories for models, embeddings, hypernetworks etc.

[ostap667inbox]

Right now we have a lot of models. New ones appear every day. Many people store downloaded models in separate directories. This is convenient, because along with models there are descriptions, test images, examples of prompts, etc.
However, in AUTOMATIC1111 there is only one directory where all models must be copied. Thus, many models have to be duplicated on disks. If there is not much disk space left, you have to constantly delete models before copying new ones. This is very inconvenient.
A very good example is the NMKD GUI (https://nmkd.itch.io/t2i-gui) - in its settings you can specify any number of directories that contain models and VAE.
Please consider the idea of making a configuration file or GUI where you can specify more than one directories for models, for VAE, embeddings, hypernetworks.

[Kilvoctu]

--ckpt-dir and other commandline arguments are listed in the wiki: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/wiki/Command-Line-Arguments-and-Settings.
That said, it'd be nice to have these sort of settings in the UI.

[Kilvoctu]

--ckpt-dir adds directory, not replaces

I guess someone can do PR to add delimiter to take multiple values for the argument.

[ostap667inbox]

Yes! Delimiter!

[hzielke]

Have you considered Symlinks? Works well for me.

[Kilvoctu]

Have you considered Symlinks? Works well for me.

As a sidenote, symlinks are good if you've got a lot of models using same few vae.
I save many GB by having a lot of symlinks for my two vae that goes to ~dozen models.

[ostap667inbox]

I'll try that. Thanks, guys!