[Feature Request]: Use a dedicated `data` directory for input and output data

[betsch85]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues and checked the recent builds/commits

What would your feature do ?

Instead of having directories like modules and models in the root directory, place them in data/input/models, data/output/saved etc, that would make running this in Docker way easier since I could just mount data instead of every directory individually.

Even though mounting every directory individually is possible, you can only mount those of which you know of (which I did), but at some point I used a feature which created a new directory in the root directory, which I didn't mount since it wasn't there. That wouldn't have been a problem if it'd been created in data/output/new_random_dir

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[vladmandic]

you can specify most of those folders via cmd line flags. changing defaults would be extremely disruptive to entire install base. so which is less painful?

[betsch85]

yea I found out the hard way after creating this issue, I didn't know there were that many cmd line flags, I only knew of those I found while browsing the code, I found it now in the wiki. Such important information should be in the README.md in the repo root imo.

Do you know if the model dirs (and all others) use the base path set with --data-dir? It's not mentioned in the default value (I'd have expect something like $DATA_DIR/models/<MODEL>). If it does then that's already the solution to this issue

[vladmandic]

that is the intention, but i haven't tested it if its implemented across the board.

# Parse the --data-dir flag first so we can use it as a base for our other argument default values
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
parser.add_argument("--data-dir", type=str, default=os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))), help="base path where all user data is stored",)

regarding cmd flags, you can always just run

python webui.py --help

some extensions register cmdflags later during init, so they wouldn't be included, but all core flags are there.

[betsch85]

thanks