Does Forge WebUI not work with NAS Drives?

[dhosein]

I'm struggling somewhat with desk space and the ever growing size of checkpoints & loras. So I want to move them to locations on a NAS drive with plenty of free space.

But it seems that the application cannot recognise the NAS drive?

I've changed the configuration as follows in webui-user.bat:

but when running - I get the following:

and the application defaults back to the C: drive.

If I just change the Z: to a D: - I no longer get this error despite the D: not having the directories mentioned. And again - the application defaults back to the C: but this time without any error reported.

Can Forge just not handle NAS drives?

[abzaloff]

Try using symbolic links.
Or make links in a different format. For example:
--ckpt-dir "Z:/Ai/Flux/models/checkpoints"

[dhosein]

OK - Managed to get Forge to accept the new location without throwing up an error by referring directly to the IP Address instead of the drive letter. Looking at the console suggests it works... there's no error I can see.

But it still doesn't work... still looks at the C: Drive regardless

[dhosein]

The Symbolic Links idea seems to be the answer... managed to set those up today and finally the WebUI can resolve the locations on the NAS correctly.
That's a big success.. has saved me close to 700Gb on my C: drive.

Thank you Abzaloff