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Author: sayakpaul

src/diffusers/utils/hub_utils.py

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 )
 from packaging import version
 from requests import HTTPError
-from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError
 
 from .. import __version__
 from .constants import (
@@ -402,24 +401,6 @@ def _get_checkpoint_shard_files(
         allow_patterns = [os.path.join(subfolder, p) for p in allow_patterns]
 
     ignore_patterns = ["*.json", "*.md"]
-    try:
-        temp_dir = snapshot_download(
-            repo_id=pretrained_model_name_or_path, cache_dir=cache_dir, local_files_only=local_files_only
-        )
-    except ConnectionError as e:
-        raise EnvironmentError(
-            f"We couldn't connect to '{HUGGINGFACE_CO_RESOLVE_ENDPOINT}' to load {pretrained_model_name_or_path}. You should try"
-            " again after checking your internet connection."
-        ) from e
-
-    model_files_info = _get_filepaths_for_folder(temp_dir)
-    for shard_file in original_shard_filenames:
-        shard_file_present = any(shard_file in k for k in model_files_info)
-        if not shard_file_present:
-            raise EnvironmentError(
-                f"{shards_path} does not appear to have a file named {shard_file} which is "
-                "required according to the checkpoint index."
-            )
 
     try:
         # Load from URL
@@ -437,6 +418,15 @@ def _get_checkpoint_shard_files(
         if subfolder is not None:
             cached_folder = os.path.join(cached_folder, subfolder)
 
+        model_files_info = _get_filepaths_for_folder(cached_folder)
+        for shard_file in original_shard_filenames:
+            shard_file_present = any(shard_file in k for k in model_files_info)
+            if not shard_file_present:
+                raise EnvironmentError(
+                    f"{shards_path} does not appear to have a file named {shard_file} which is "
+                    "required according to the checkpoint index."
+                )
+
     # We have already dealt with RepositoryNotFoundError and RevisionNotFoundError when getting the index, so
     # we don't have to catch them here. We have also dealt with EntryNotFoundError.
     except HTTPError as e: