Enabling Other Models logged two warnings on a stock ComfyUI install:
Detected the same folder '.../clip' under multiple other-model categories
('.../clip' is already mapped). Keeping the first category; please fix
your path configuration.
Nothing was wrong with the configuration. ComfyUI's folder_paths rewrites
legacy names before every access (map_legacy: clip -> text_encoders,
unet -> diffusion_models) and registers both legacy directories under the
canonical key, so get_folder_paths("clip") returns exactly the same list as
get_folder_paths("text_encoders"). Both keys are in the enabled allow-list,
so the second pass hit the overlap guard for every text-encoder folder and
printed advice the user cannot act on. The path list itself was correct
(deduped), only the message was wrong.
- Config._collapse_legacy_folder_keys() drops a key when the host exposes
map_legacy and resolves it to another queried key. That is provably
lossless: an empty canonical list implies an empty alias list. The
standalone MockFolderPaths has no map_legacy and its keys are independent
settings.json entries, so every key is still queried there.
- _prepare_other_paths() now tracks the claiming sub_type alongside the
business path and downgrades a same-sub_type duplicate to debug, keeping
the warning for a genuine cross-category collision (and naming the other
category in the message).
Regression tests cover the aliased-key layout (no warning, no redundant
query, both folders still managed) and the same-sub_type duplicate, and the
opt-in test is parametrized over controlnet and clip_vision.
Other Models management is now opt-in: enable_other_models (default false)
plus the enabled_other_sub_types allow-list replace the unreleased additive
enabled_other_folders key.
- config._get_enabled_other_folder_keys() is the single scan gate; a new
refresh_other_roots() rebuilds roots and preview roots on toggle.
- ModelScanner gains a _should_keep_cached_entry() hydration hook and
on_library_changed(reconcile=...) so switching a sub_type off drops its
entries (and hash/autov3 rows) at load time and switching it on rescans.
- OtherScanner filters location-derived entries accordingly.
- Other routes reject every other type while off (or a disabled sub_type) and
expose an "other_disabled" page flag; download routing returns a disabled
marker instead of guessing; the download manager refuses other-type
downloads and default-path routing for switched-off sub_types.
- Doctor / init-status / refresh-all skip the other scanner while off; the
scanner stays registered so staged pending-deletes still merge.
- Tests updated with explicit opt-in fixtures plus new gating coverage.
Will Miao