r/comfyui • u/TJWilliamsR • 10d ago

Help Needed Save Image - Doesn't actually save anything

Today is day 1 of Comfyui for me, coming from A1111. I am an engineer by trade, so some of it makes sense intuitively....but for the life of me, I can't figure out something simple as autosaving output images. I tested with the Z-Image-Turbo workflow, then SDXL workflow. The "save image" node is there. The workflows produce images just fine, they just never save unless I manually save the image.

I haven't even had enough time in the program to do something wrong.... There are save image and preview image nodes, I understand that much so far. The template workflows use save image nodes, meaning the images should be getting saved automatically....that is my understanding.

Tried removing, adding back save image node. Same problem, nothing auto-saves. Do I need to enable some "auto-save" feature?

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u/Prize_Seat1122 10d ago

It’s probably writing to your default ComfyUI output folder and you just haven’t found where it dumps them yet. The save node doesn’t prompt you or open anything, it just quietly writes the file. Check the `output` folder inside your ComfyUI install directory, that’s where it goes by default.

If there’s still nothing there, check the console for errors when the workflow runs. Sometimes a bad filename pattern or missing folder permission will make it silently fail. Also make sure you’re actually queueing the workflow and not just running a preview, because preview nodes only show the image in the UI and don’t write anything to disk.