Model Metadata JSON Questions

[high hazel]

1. Was the model metadata extension changed to .swarm.json such that I should be able to rename the pre-existing .json files to make things consistent, or did the content change as well? Is there a better way to clean them up?

2. I have ModelMetadataPerFolder and EditModelMetadataWriteJSON disabled (see image). Shouldn't the metadata be written to the model files rather than (.swarm).json files? I see them paired with .safetensors files that I downloaded via Model Downloader and .gguf files that I downloaded manually.

Thanks!

[kindred crescent]

1 .swarm.json is the standard extension now, same content as previous swarm-spawned jsons.

2 it will write from json to model header the first time to edit metadata, but you can enable AlwaysResave to not have the json spawn at all

you can also enable ClearStrayModelData to make sure swarm removes everything left lying around when you do any edit

(otherwise it will remove .swarm.json but leave other files -- this change happened because people had .json and other files spawned by other UIs and didn't want swarm removing it)