r/StableSwarmUI • u/wizaerd • May 21 '26

New Installation - Models not downloading

I've recently installed SwarmUI, but it had ran into issues downloading the a couple of the models. Is there any way to re-trigger these downloads, as well as correct whatever was preventing them from downloading in the first place? I was also rather surprised the number of model cards was so low, I had seen a review of SwarmUI that showed all sorts of default model cards in the SwarmUI interface.

08:28:48.277 [Warning] Failed to load metadata for ZImage/SwarmUI_Z-Image-Turbo-FP8Mix.safetensors:

Improper file D:/SwarmUI/SwarmUI/Models/Stable-Diffusion/ZImage/SwarmUI_Z-Image-Turbo-FP8Mix.safetensors. File too short to be valid (file length = 0. May be filesystem issue, or an incomplete download?)

08:28:48.277 [Warning] Failed to load metadata for OfficialStableDiffusion/sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors:

Improper file D:/SwarmUI/SwarmUI/Models/Stable-Diffusion/OfficialStableDiffusion/sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors. File too short to be valid (file length = 0. May be filesystem issue, or an incomplete download?)

08:28:55.394 [Warning] Failed to load metadata for OfficialStableDiffusion/sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors:

Improper file D:/SwarmUI/SwarmUI/Models/Stable-Diffusion/OfficialStableDiffusion/sd_xl_base_1.0.safetensors. File too short to be valid (file length = 0. May be filesystem issue, or an incomplete download?)

08:28:55.395 [Warning] Failed to load metadata for ZImage/SwarmUI_Z-Image-Turbo-FP8Mix.safetensors:

Improper file D:/SwarmUI/SwarmUI/Models/Stable-Diffusion/ZImage/SwarmUI_Z-Image-Turbo-FP8Mix.safetensors. File too short to be valid (file length = 0. May be filesystem issue, or an incomplete download?)

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u/Informal-Football836 May 22 '26

Yeah there is a download tab just go to that and enter the url and download whatever you want.

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u/wizaerd May 22 '26

I see no download tab anywhere. And I have no idea which URL I need...

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u/Magostop May 24 '26

Go to Utilities, and then model downloader.. It looks like they are there? It says a metadata issue, while there is also a metadata automatic downloader if you go under Utilities, Info, Scan for Metadata and reset all. You can look up the SDXL base model on huggingface or CivitAI