LM Studio GUI does not show models downloaded with `lms get`

[dsilbergleithcu-godaddy]

Errant Behavior

I'm on a Macbook Pro. I've used lms get to download mlx models. When I use lms ls I see the models. When I load LM Studio gui, the models don't show but the gui ~reports space used for the models~. Correction: It does not show the model usage.

lms ls:

Corresponding LM Studio:

Expected Behavior

I would expect any model that is installed via lms would be visible/usable in the gui.

[JaxangZ]

I have the same issue, but I entirely used GUI for downloading. In my understanding, it more seems like the lms ls command mistakely shows hidden items or duplicated items for some models.

In my case, an embedding model text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5 comes with the LM Studio app (I didn't downloaded it) and it only shows in lms ls command and is not in the GUI my models panel. When I downloaded a model that encountered duplicated instances issue under lms ls, say google/gemma-3-27b, only one instance shows in the GUI my models panel, and two shows under lms ls: google/gemma-3-27b and gemma-3-27b-it-qat. This issue also doubled the file size calculation for lms ls -- it shows 'You have 11 models, taking up 1.01 TB of disk space' while in GUI 'You have 6 models, taking up 701.17 GB of disk space'.

I also noticed that when I delete the folder users/myname/.lmstudio/hub/models, the behavior of lms ls will be kind of restored -- the duplicated issue fixed but the unexpected model text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5 still there (how can I delete it? or if it is necessary for the app, why not show it in GUI).

I'm using LM Studio 0.3.17 (build 1) on MacOS 15.5 w/ M-series chip. As far as I know, this issue also shows in 0.3.16 (build 7).

(Maybe the search method matched all */models folders?)

[dsilbergleithcu-godaddy]

I did a little exploration and I do think the hub directory is the source of the confusion. If I delete the models from the models directory it complains about missing models which it knows about because of the hub dir.

It would be great if lms could generate proper hub entries to make this all "just work."

[JaxangZ]

Fixed in the latest beta. Thank developers! 🥳

[RajaMuhammadAwais]

The issue seems to be a mismatch between how the lms CLI and the LM Studio GUI manage model metadata.

• The user dsilbergleithcu-godaddy suggests that the hub directory is the source of the confusion, and that lms should generate proper hub entries.