Running on Windows - Problems and Solutions

[MichaelMartinez]

Great project and thank you for sharing!

I ran into a few issues while installing and have some solutions.

Problems

1. Qdrant didn't work on Windows 10
2. Unclear where data is supposed to be stored/loaded
3. Unclear where the app runs from when using docker

Solutions

1. Use docker for Qdrant - It seems that qdrant is very problematic running on windows natively
   • navigate to "docker" folder in main directory
   • docker compose up -d
   • Check qdrant container http://localhost:6333/dashboard
2. Download data from https://civitai.com/models/330412/prompt-quill-vector-data
   • Navigate: Qdrant Dashboard -> collections -> upload dataset
   • Name the new collection: prompts_large_meta
   • Unzip prompt quill vector file (19GB or so)
   • Populate the upload dialogue with the file and click upload
   • Patiently wait for Qdrant to do its thing. DO NOT CLICK AROUND. Go check out hackernews or something
   • It will finish eventually and now you can install the app with the one click method
3. Install the app
   • The app itself doesn't install into another docker container. I was confused by this at first. It simply uses docker for qdrant.
   • Click on one_click_install_docker.bat to install the main app. I still ended up with the vector data being downloaded, into the /installer_files/qdrant/ directory. I haven't deleted it yet but I assume you could as its using the docker container.
   • Once installed, use the start_prompt_quill_docker.bat to run. There will be a pull request with a change to this file shortly.

[osi1880vr]

Thanks for pointing that out and digging into the details. I keep it open so maybe other people can learn from this until I learn how to fix the native install that most the time works but in some cases keep failing without any visible reason.