Manage models: define custom paths & show defaults

[tsilvs]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I already have a lot of GiBs of LLMs downloaded on my PC. My connection is metered & slow, storage is limited as well.

I can't afford downloading hundreds of GiBs of data again. It will be slow, expensive & polluting.

Describe the solution you'd like

• Disclose downloads location in UI
• Let users specify new default model download directory

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Support backups & restores of models

Additional context

Alpaca 0.9.2 flatpak from flathub

[tsilvs]

Possibly related to #76

[Jeffser]

Hi, I don't think I'll be making the download directory modifiable, I prefer it to stay inside the Flatpak directory. For now what you can do if you want to migrate an existing ollama instance to alpaca is this

[tsilvs]

what you can do if you want to migrate an existing ollama instance to alpaca is this

Could be better for UX to add a note somewhere in preferences or list of models about current location for models being ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/data/.ollama

[tsilvs]

@Jeffser another solution idea: what if you add a method of symlinking or hardlinking of models from any user defined directory to ~/.var/app/com.jeffser.Alpaca/data/.ollama?

[Jeffser]

Sooo I have some news for 3.0.0

[Jeffser]

https://github.com/Jeffser/Alpaca/commit/e450547bea2b184ba44a25f4a7354b02689bdb7f