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Developer mode requirement on Windows

See original GitHub issue

The current snapshot_download and hf_hub_download methods currently use symlinks for efficient storage management. However, symlinks are not properly supported on Windows where administrator privileges or Developer Mode needs to be enabled in order to be used.

We chose to take this approach so that it mirrors the linux/osx behavior.

Opening an issue here to track issues encountered by users in the ecosystem:

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/19048

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Created a year ago
Comments:27 (13 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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LysandreJikcommented, Sep 20, 2022

Hey, thanks all for your comments. We agree that it shouldn’t behave this way under Windows and we’re working on a solution.

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henk717commented, Sep 19, 2022

For our frontend and many others as well this will be a big issue, it is very hard to explain to users as to why they need developer mode or administrative permissions in order to be able to download a model. This seems very suspicious to a user since they will not be aware of the technical limitation. It would be much nicer if we have control over this, such as being able to use the old cache system if desired.