[GH-ISSUE #8593] ollama fails to detect old models after update #5556

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opened 2026-04-12 16:48:51 -05:00 by GiteaMirror · 2 comments
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Originally created by @nevakrien on GitHub (Jan 26, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8593

What is the issue?

so my setup has a semi link for runing ollama model and I think i have over a tera byte of model weights so if there is a way to make it so i dont need to download the entire thing again i would be very happy

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Linux

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0.5.7

Originally created by @nevakrien on GitHub (Jan 26, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8593 ### What is the issue? so my setup has a semi link for runing ollama model and I think i have over a tera byte of model weights so if there is a way to make it so i dont need to download the entire thing again i would be very happy ### OS Linux ### GPU _No response_ ### CPU _No response_ ### Ollama version 0.5.7
GiteaMirror added the bug label 2026-04-12 16:48:51 -05:00
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<!-- gh-comment-id:2614437413 --> @rick-github commented on GitHub (Jan 26, 2025): https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#where-are-models-stored
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@nevakrien commented on GitHub (Jan 26, 2025):

solved it (thx to help in discord) it was about moving the file names

sudo bash -c 'cd /home/user/.ollama/models/blobs/ && for file in sha256:*; do mv "$file" "${file/:/-}"; done'
<!-- gh-comment-id:2614451857 --> @nevakrien commented on GitHub (Jan 26, 2025): solved it (thx to help in discord) it was about moving the file names ```bash sudo bash -c 'cd /home/user/.ollama/models/blobs/ && for file in sha256:*; do mv "$file" "${file/:/-}"; done' ```
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Reference: github-starred/ollama#5556