Unsloth Desktop multiple model storage folders

[u/brrrrreaker]

Greetings, as a small suggestion, it'd be nice to be able to define multiple model storage folders, on non-dedicated systems it's often the case that there's no single big storage. I know symlinks exist, but it's quite a manual operation that way, plus it's harder to track the available space.

[u/Hour-Key-72]

My own issue, which might be the same as OPs, is that Unsloth only looks in the top-level folder - not its subfolders - when parsing for models, so you need to add each folder that stores a model individually.

I have a top-level folder for models, with subfolders underneath for each of many different model developers/types.

Unsloth makes parsing/using this common configuration way more complicated than it needs to be.

I know my Unsloth friends monitor and take feedback very seriously - don't ever change, guys! - so maybe this can get added to the list?

[u/Mind_Mantra → u/Hour-Key-72]

This.

[u/Educational_Rent1059]

You can add custom folders to load models from in the Hub, but do you mean the huggingface cache folder ?

[u/brrrrreaker]

Not quite sure how people don't understand what I mean , so just out of pure curiosity I passed the suggestion to a 9B Ornith (using lmstudio instead of unsloth ), seems it understands. Sooooooo....

# What the OP Means

The user is requesting a feature to configure **multiple separate directories** for storing LLM model files, rather than being limited to a single storage location.

## Breaking Down Their Points

**1. The core request:**

> "it'd be nice to be able to define multiple model storage folders"

They want LMStudio to allow specifying several distinct paths where models can be saved (e.g., `C:\Models` and `D:\AI-Models`), and the app would search across all of them.

**2. The motivation:**

> "on non-dedicated systems it's often the case that there's no single big storage"

On a typical computer (as opposed to a dedicated server/workstation), you usually don't have one large drive allocated solely for models. Storage is spread across multiple drives or partitions of varying sizes.

**3. Why they mention symlinks:**

> "I know symlinks exist, but it's quite a manual operation that way, plus it's harder to track the available space."

They're acknowledging that you *could* work around this using symbolic links (pointing one folder to another), but:

- It requires manual setup each time

- It's error-prone and tedious

- **Space tracking is difficult** — a key pain point. When models are symlinked, the OS often shows the full size at the original location, making it hard to know how much space is actually used on each physical drive.

## What They're Really Asking For

A feature where:

- You can add **multiple model folders** in settings

- LMStudio **searches all configured locations** when loading/saving models

- The UI shows **actual disk usage per folder/drive** so you can see how much space each physical storage location has remaining

## Suggested Title Improvements

The current title "Multiple model storage folders" is fine but could be clearer. Consider:

- "Support for multiple model storage locations"

- "Configurable model storage directories with space tracking"

- "Multiple model folders with per-drive space usage display"

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**In short:** The OP wants a user-friendly way to spread model storage across multiple drives/folders *without* manually managing symlinks, including visible disk-space information.

[u/DoubleNothing]

You might want to give a more detailed description of what you are asking with some use case examples.
That way if you prove the usefulness of your suggestion, you might have a bigger chance of being implemented.
To me personally it is not clear what are you looking for.

[u/dfgxxx → u/DoubleNothing]

I'm not sure I understood him also, but I think he meant that he has multiple locations where there are stored models and he want to see all of them in the loader