ComfyUI Installation Package Folder Structure Explained

ComfyUI Installation Package Folder Explanation

The following is a breakdown of the roles of some files in the ComfyUI installation directory.

ComfyUI_windows_portable
├── ComfyUI                                            // Main folder for Comfy UI
│  ├── .git                                            // Git version control folder, used for code version management
│  ├── .github                                         // GitHub Actions workflow folder
│  ├── comfy                                           //
│  ├── 📁 comfy_extras                                 //
│  ├── 📁 custom_nodes                                 // Directory for ComfyUI custom node files (plugin installation directory)
│  ├── 📁 input                                        // ComfyUI upload folder, when you use nodes like load image, the corresponding uploaded images will be stored in this folder
│  ├── 📁 models                                       // Corresponding model file configuration folder
│  |  ├── 📁 checkpoints                               // Path for storing large model checkpoint files
│  |  ├── 📁 clip                                      // Path for storing CLIP files
│  |  ├── 📁 clip_vision                               // Path for storing CLIP_vision files
│  |  ├── 📁 configs
│  |  ├── 📁 controlnet                                // Path for storing ControlNet model files
│  |  ├── 📁 diffusers
│  |  ├── 📁 embedding                                 // Path for storing embedding model files
│  |  ├── 📁 gligen
│  |  ├── 📁 hypernetworks                             // Path for storing hypernetwork models
│  |  ├── 📁 loras                                     // Path for storing Lora model files
│  |  ├── 📁 style_models
│  |  ├── 📁 unet
│  |  ├── 📁 upscale_models                            // Path for storing upscale model files
│  |  ├── 📁 vae                                       // Path for storing VAE model files
│  |  └── 📁 vae_approx
│  ├── 📁 notebooks
│  ├── 📁 user                                         // ComfyUI user information (such as configuration files, workflow information, etc.)
│  |    ├── 📁 default                                 // Default ComfyUI user folder
│  |    |    ├─ 📁 workflow                            // Folder for user-saved workflows
│  |    |    ├─ 📄 xxx.json                            // User configuration file
│  |    |    └── ... xxx.json                          // Other configuration files
│  |    └── ...[username]                              // If multi-user is enabled and multiple users exist, corresponding different usernames will be displayed
│  ├── 📁 output                                       // ComfyUI image output folder, when using nodes like save image, the generated images will be stored in this folder
│  |    ├── 📁 checkpoints                             // If using model merge nodes and related functions to save merged models, the merged models will be output here
│  |    └── ... xxx.png                                // Files generated during the process will be saved here
│  ├── extra_model_paths.yaml.example                  // Extra model file path configuration file, if you set this, please remove the .example suffix and edit with a text editor
│  └── ...                                             // Other files
├── 📁 config                                          // Configuration folder
├── 📁 Python_embeded                                  // Embedded Python files
├── 📁 update  
│  ├── update.py                                       // Python script for ComfyUI
│  ├── update_comfyUI.bat                              // The batch command recommended by the author of ComfyUI to upgrade ComfyUI
│  └── update_comfyui_and_python_dependencies.bat      // Only run this batch command when there are issues with your Python dependency files
├── comfyui.log                                        // Comfy UI runtime log file
├── README_VERY_IMPORTANT.txt                          // README file, includes methods and explanations for file usage, etc.
├── run_cpu.bat                                        // Batch file, double-click to start ComfyUI when your graphics card is an A card or you only have a CPU
└── run_nvidia_gpu.bat                                 // Batch file, double-click to start ComfyUI when your graphics card is an N card (Nvidia)