Models don't appear in workflows if placed in the custom specified 'models' location (defined at installation)

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• This is a single feature request (not multiple features combined)

Problem StatementI recently installed ComfyUI Desktop and noticed it installs itself by default in 3 locations in Appdata in the C: drive:

• C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\ComfyUI
• C:\Users\User\AppData\Local@comfyorgcomfyui-electron-updater
• C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron

And also if we specify a custom destination path at the beginning of the install, it adds a 4th location (with only the following folders: .venv, custom_nodes, input, models, output, user, uv-cache).

PROBLEM 1
In my case, I chose another bigger internal drive because my C: drive is limited in space and I can't put all the heavy models there.
Therefore my models folders are located here: "L:\COMFY UI\ComfyUI\models"
Side question: Should I assume that in the future, when we update ComfyUI Desktop, those folders are safe and won't be overwritten or their content deleted?

The problem is that these models are not scanned from this location and therefore can't be selected via the loaders of my workflows.
ComfyUI Desktop expects them to be here (when placed here it works):
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs@comfyorgcomfyui-electron\resources\ComfyUI\models

PROBLEM 2
As an alternative, I was able to edit the "extra_models_path.yaml" so at least a few of the models appear.
Note: I've put them in yet another place "L:\ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE\MODELS" so I wouldn't have to move them every time I used to reinstall ComfyUI Portable, back then.
This is what the .yaml file looks like:

extra models paths ( https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/580f2d53-457f-4382-9f68-ccdb8381ca23 )

The problem is many folders coming from wrapper custom_nodes can't be redirected by this method (like CogVideo, LLM (containing Florence-2 and Om

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