Excessive disk space usage with Kijai Florence2 pack

[freshwind-bit]

Your wonderful custom node pack and Kijai Florence2 pack install the same models in different folders: Florence2 and LLM. Because of this, a lot of disk space is wasted. In my opinion, it is much more logical to store models in the LLM folder in subfolders with the Florence-2- prefix, as Kijai did. https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-Florence2

[chflame163]

Also other plugins that put models into models/Florence2, like https://github.com/yiwangsimple/florence_dw. Of course, you can make soft link between these model folders to save space.

[freshwind-bit]

In your nodes, the Phi-3.5 models are loaded into the LLM folder. Why are Florence2 models moved to a higher level? And the other pack you mentioned is not in the ComfyUI manager at all and you are mistaken - there the models are loaded into Florence, not the Florence2 folder, here is a quote: "manual download to comfyui/models/florence/large(base,base-ft,large-ft,sd3)"

[chflame163]

And the other pack you mentioned is not in the ComfyUI manager at all and you are mistaken - there the models are loaded into Florence, not the Florence2 folder, here is a quote: "manual download to comfyui/models/florence/large(base,base-ft,large-ft,sd3)"

His readme is incorrect, the code is this:

[freshwind-bit]

@chflame163 I did it like this: https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-Florence2/issues/79#issuecomment-2404402346 But symlinks are not copied to backups. Duplicate files are copied in their place. So this is a crutch.