[Bug]: All generated images are being saved in local/temp/gradio

[nitingrg]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues and checked the recent builds/commits

What happened?

Everytime I generate an image, its saved into /local/temp/gradio.

I have turned off save images in the settings but it still saves images there. How can I prevent this or auto delete images once I close Stable DIffusion?

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Run SD
2. Generate images
3. Check C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\gradio

What should have happened?

No images should be saved if I turn off the save images option.

Commit where the problem happens

baf6946

What Python version are you running on ?

Python 3.10.x

What platforms do you use to access the UI ?

Windows

What device are you running WebUI on?

Nvidia GPUs (RTX 20 above)

What browsers do you use to access the UI ?

Microsoft Edge

Command Line Arguments

set COMMANDLINE_ARGS=--xformers

List of extensions

open pose editor
sd-webui-controlnet
ultimate-upscale-for-automatic1111
LDSR
Lora
ScuNET
SwinIR
prompt-bracket-checker

Console logs

venv "D:\stabledif\stable-diffusion-webui\venv\Scripts\Python.exe"
Python 3.10.6 (tags/v3.10.6:9c7b4bd, Aug  1 2022, 21:53:49) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)]
Version: v1.3.2
Commit hash: baf6946e06249c5af9851c60171692c44ef633e0
Installing requirements

Launching Web UI with arguments: --xformers
2023-06-12 11:03:53,205 - ControlNet - INFO - ControlNet v1.1.224
ControlNet preprocessor location: D:\stabledif\stable-diffusion-webui\extensions\sd-webui-controlnet\annotator\downloads2023-06-12 11:03:53,280 - ControlNet - INFO - ControlNet v1.1.224
Loading weights [fc2511737a] from D:\stabledif\stable-diffusion-webui\models\Stable-diffusion\chilloutmix_NiPrunedFp32Fix.safetensors
Creating model from config: D:\stabledif\stable-diffusion-webui\configs\v1-inference.yaml
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 859.52 M params.
Running on local URL:  http://127.0.0.1:7860

To create a public link, set `share=True` in `launch()`.
Startup time: 7.0s (import torch: 1.7s, import gradio: 0.9s, import ldm: 0.5s, other imports: 0.8s, list SD models: 0.2s, load scripts: 1.4s, create ui: 0.3s, gradio launch: 1.0s).
Loading VAE weights specified in settings: D:\stabledif\stable-diffusion-webui\models\VAE\vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.safetensors
Applying optimization: xformers... done.
Textual inversion embeddings loaded(2): advntr, HyperStylizeV6
Textual inversion embeddings skipped(3): nartfixer, nfixer, nrealfixer
Model loaded in 4.9s (load weights from disk: 0.7s, create model: 0.7s, apply weights to model: 1.0s, apply half(): 0.7s, load VAE: 0.1s, move model to device: 0.8s, load textual inversion embeddings: 0.9s).

Additional information

No response

[Kurogawa]

I think that's technically not a bug? since you need your pics actually being "generated" no matter you want to save or not. but anyway, you can try to make a nested folders in your webui root directory and name the inside folder "gradio". then in your webui-user.bat, do set the working path with your webui root directory to TEMP and TMP like this:
set TEMP=D:\stable-diffusion-webui\nestedfolder_with_gradio_inside(any name you like)
set TMP=D:\stable-diffusion-webui\nestedfolder_with_gradio_inside(any name you like)
then your generated pics should be in gradio folder, at least that's how I did. And you can delete things easier with ctrl + a and shift + del

[Pmejna]

I think this is still technically a bug as this should be handled by automatic1111. This issue started appearing to me as well after recent git pull. Not sure what version I had previously but for sure this hasn't happening before

[DvST8x]

Before the recent change the images were saved under
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Temp
The recent change organized them under a subfolder
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\gradio

There's a few other posts asking about this for example
If the setting to not save images doesn't do what most people think it should be removed or renamed?
I ended up creating a batch file to have a easy one click way of cleaning out this folder.

ECHO OFF del "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\gradio\*.*" /s /f /q EXIT

[Anthonyg5005]

Server needs a way to send the file to the browser, it's how webapps work

[dmitrijkiltau]

I think we all understand, that a temporary save location is necessary, but shouldn't it be, well, temporary? The temp folder should be cleaned on close or maybe on start and not to be cleaned manually.

[palentir]

I looked into it and it seems that "gradio" is croatian for "built". I believe the files are generated by ControlNet.
You should maybe test that then close this and open it in controlnet's git page instead, they need a setting to allow redirect of the temp location. However Kurogawa's solution works.