[GH-ISSUE #8506] Compatiblity with LM-Studio model folders #5483

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opened 2026-04-12 16:42:40 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 4 comments
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Originally created by @ruze00 on GitHub (Jan 20, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8506

It's a bit much having to either download each GGUF model twice - once for LM Studio and once for Ollama - or having to manually symlink and play with files, just to have a single set of models instead of duplicate model files. It seems like it would be fairly trivial to support loading models from a shared folder or from the LM Studio default download path if needed.

Originally created by @ruze00 on GitHub (Jan 20, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8506 It's a bit much having to either download each GGUF model twice - once for LM Studio and once for Ollama - or having to manually symlink and play with files, just to have a single set of models instead of duplicate model files. It seems like it would be fairly trivial to support loading models from a shared folder or from the LM Studio default download path if needed.
GiteaMirror added the feature request label 2026-04-12 16:42:40 -05:00
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2025):

It's not clear how much work you are doing for the symlinks, but you can largely automate it with a script, see https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8466#issuecomment-2597731833.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2604341564 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 21, 2025): It's not clear how much work you are doing for the symlinks, but you can largely automate it with a script, see https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8466#issuecomment-2597731833.
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@pdevine commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025):

Closing this as a dupe.

<!-- gh-comment-id:2606026931 --> @pdevine commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025): Closing this as a dupe.
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@SongPing commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

Why this was closed? There is no link to a duplicate.
It is one of the major pain points, when using LM-Studio and Ollama together.
It should not be that hard to solve this!

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619166125 --> @SongPing commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): Why this was closed? There is no link to a duplicate. It is one of the major pain points, when using LM-Studio and Ollama together. It should not be that hard to solve this!
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@rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025):

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8466#issuecomment-2597731833

<!-- gh-comment-id:2619172437 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2025): https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8466#issuecomment-2597731833
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#5483