Feature Request: model and output path setting

Sym linking is not ideal, setting a model folder is pretty standard these days and most of us use more than one software that uses models.
The same for choosing where to put the output images, personally mine go to a portable drive, not sure how to do that with ComfyUI.

[jordanbtucker]

See also #66, #35, and #18 for alternate suggestions regarding this issue.

[comfyanonymous]

https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI/blob/master/extra_model_paths.yaml.example

Update the ui, copy the new ComfyUI/extra_model_paths.yaml.example to ComfyUI/extra_model_paths.yaml and edit it to set the path to your a1111 ui.

Awesome, will test later. Thank you for adding this

[arijoon]

is it also possible to set the output path?

[comfyanonymous]

You can now use --output-directory directory/path to set the output path.

[tusharbhutt]

You can now use --output-directory directory/path to set the output path.

That unfortunately does not work for UNC paths on Windows:

  File "C:\Applications\StableDiffusion\ComfyUI\ComfyUI\folder_paths.py", line 214, in get_save_image_path
    if os.path.commonpath((output_dir, os.path.abspath(full_output_folder))) != output_dir:
  File "ntpath.py", line 804, in commonpath
ValueError: Paths don't have the same drive

[Jandolek1]

Where did you try to change please? In the .bat file or in the .yaml file.

[tusharbhutt]

Where did you try to change please? In the .bat file or in the .yaml file.

Batch file...

[Jandolek1]

Yes, I tried and does not work :/

[andreszs]

I'm astonished to see that such an advanced and revolutionary piece of software just dumps all output files in the same folder with a meaningless ComfyUI_00123.png format.

A1111 is miles ahead here, naming files as output/YYYY-MM-DD/batchnumber_seed.png in a folder with the current date.

Is there some solution, extension or any possible way to emulate the same output format from automatic1111?

[ltdrdata]

I'm astonished to see that such an advanced and revolutionary piece of software just dumps all output files in the same folder with a meaningless ComfyUI_00123.png format.

A1111 is miles ahead here, naming files as output/YYYY-MM-DD/batchnumber_seed.png in a folder with the current date.

Is there some solution, extension or any possible way to emulate the same output format from automatic1111?

Maybe you can find it in the WAS node suite.

[andreszs]

@ltdrdata It seems the README says nothing about output paths, and that plugin seems to add other features which are irrelevant in this case.

[Schokostoffdioxid]

Hi, maybe im just dumb but is there no documentation / ability on how to set the output path inside the yaml?
im currently trying the following but this doesn't seem to work...

a111:
    base_path: E:\stable-diffusion-ai
    
    output-directory: stable-diff-output\comfyui

Also an ability (like a boolean here) to make automatic folders for different dates would be sick (but probably another PR i imagine)

[andreszs]

@Schokostoffdioxid My model paths yaml doesn't include an output-directory value. However, I now set the output path and filename using a primitive node as explained here: Change output file names in ComfyUI

Basically, to output files in a folder with current date you add this to your Primitive node:
%date:yyyy-MM-dd%/%date:hhmmss%_%KSampler.seed%

So the file would be saved as output/2023-08-15/083821_109992800202691_00001_.png, which means output/date/time_seed_00001_.png.