ComfyUI Desktop Directory mismatch, worker not loading, & bandaid-fix

[Krindus]

Was getting the error "[Distributed] Warning: Could not reliably determine ComfyUI root directory" and local Workers were not connecting locally.

ComfyUI desktop installs in two different directories. the appdata directory: "C:\Users{Username}\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI"
And whatever custom directory you picked on install for nodes and models and venv. Because ComfyUI manager installs nodes into the custom directory, the installed node for Distributed never checks the appdata directory for the root install path of comfy.

To fix this I modified 'distributed.py' in {customdirectory}\Comfy2\custom_nodes\ComfyUI-Distributed,
Line 831:
830| # Return the initial guess as fallback
831| return os.path.expandvars(r"C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Programs\@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI")

workers seem to load now.

Hopefully this will help some people.

[robertvoy]

Wait, so this makes it work with the ComfyUI desktop app version?

[Krindus]

As far as I know, yes, took a screengrab to show the results. Now, I haven't used it for anything yet, so I can't tell you how effective it is. Every multi-gpu/offloading/parallel task type process I've tried has been slower than just letting my 5070ti do the work on its own. let me know if it does anything for you.

https://imgur.com/a/Lsdkizi (Edit:Fixed link)

[robertvoy]

Wow ok, I'll test it out. Thank you for this.