Use model files you already have

The Library reads model files where they already are. It does not move or copy them, and you do not download them again.

1. Open Library → Folders.
2. Press add folder. Type the folder’s path, or press browse to pick it. Write the path as the machine the Library runs on writes it.
3. Press save folders.
4. Open Library and press scan. The models appear in the list, and the page says when it last scanned.

Subfolders are searched. A model is one .gguf file, the first file of a split model, or a safetensors folder. A vision projector, a companion for speculative decoding and the later pieces of a split model are not listed as models of their own.

If a model is missing

With no model selected, Library shows a link such as show 12 skipped paths. Open it. It lists every file the scan passed over, each with its reason, for example not a model, could not be read, unsupported format or partial download.

A folder on a NAS

If your other machines reach the folder by a different path, fill in the folder’s row on Library → Folders:

1. Under Mounted on Linux / macOS nodes at, type the path those machines use, for example /mnt/models.
2. Under Mounted on Windows nodes at, type the path Windows machines use, for example \\NAS\models.
3. Press save folders.

A machine that mounts the share somewhere else gets its own path: click the machine’s name in the table’s header, type the path in its Override box, and press save overrides.

Good to know

• A machine runs a model only from one of these folders.
• The scan skips symlinked folders unless Follow symlinked directories is on in the Library’s settings. A folder you add yourself is always scanned.
• Scanning at startup is on by default. Turn off Scan at startup for a slow share, and press scan when you want it.
• Files that have not changed are not read again. full rescan reads every model’s header again.
• The Library reads .gguf and safetensors files. Ollama keeps its models as hash-named blob files, which the Library does not read as models.
• remove on a folder only stops the Library listing it. Nothing on disk is touched.