Uninstall/cleanup

[Clivey1234]

Hi

I have comfyui portable and I installed the manager, some nodes and models etc and eventually after a few weeks comfy was generating too many errors and when selecting restart from the manager, it would crash and not load unless i start it from the bat file again. I researched and the answer most people gave was to delete the folder and just install it again. But here's the thing.

When you first install comfy, I noticed the comfy registrydata ticked up to 35 when using it for the first time. After a reinstall, it now goes up to 78 on a clean reintsall. I assume that its finding data from the previous install (even though i deleted the folder) and is using that.

I also find that after a reinstall, the comfyui manager seems to think i have nodes installed even though its a fresh one: example rgthree or some models that I had on the previous install had downloaded via the manager.

My question is how to to "truely" cleanup comfyui for a reinstall? where are is all this information being stored. I assume that it should have been in the comfyui folder as its portable, but my gut tells me its also adding data elsewhere, that i need to find and clean up

Any ideas on how to do a true uninstall/reinstall on portable?

Thanks

[ltdrdata]

The increase in registry data is a natural phenomenon because the overall database has expanded. This numerical information is not from your local data but is retrieved from the registry site.
In the future, the structure will be changed to one that does not use caching.

If you are using the portable version and have not manually modified files like extra_model_paths.yaml, there is no data being stored elsewhere.

[Clivey1234]

thanks, so if I delete the folder, and reinstall it, how does comfyui manager know that I had installed a custom model/node on the last install before folder deletion? If its clean, then it wouldn't know that, so must be getting the data from somewhere else yes?

[ltdrdata]

Basically, ComfyUI-Manager scans the nodes installed in the ComfyUI/custom_nodes directory.
If you have specified a different path for custom nodes in extra_model_paths.yaml, it will also check that path additionally.