imaginAIry suddenly not working, code has not changed, models were downloaded to my drive long ago

Author: slashdottirCreated Mar 5, 2025Updated Feb 13, 2026
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I've been a happy user of imaginAIry for over a year now. All of a sudden though, I can't run it.

The model was downloaded ages ago to my .cache folder

~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--openai--clip-vit-large-patch14/

Why did it suddenly stop working?

Thank you for any info

It produces this error:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_errors.py", line 259, in hf_raise_for_status
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1021, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14/resolve/main/vocab.json

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py", line 409, in cached_file
    resolved_file = hf_hub_download(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 120, in _inner_fn
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1139, in hf_hub_download
    metadata = get_hf_file_metadata(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 120, in _inner_fn
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1480, in get_hf_file_metadata
    hf_raise_for_status(r)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_errors.py", line 291, in hf_raise_for_status
    raise RepositoryNotFoundError(message, response) from e
huggingface_hub.utils._errors.RepositoryNotFoundError: 401 Client Error. (Request ID: Root=1-67c8d1ff-65d30d2d250789730379ad4b)

Repository Not Found for url: https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-large-patch14/resolve/main/vocab.json.
Please make sure you specified the correct `repo_id` and `repo_type`.
If you are trying to access a private or gated repo, make sure you are authenticated.
Invalid credentials in Authorization header

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/bin/imagine", line 7, in <module>
    imaginairy.cli.imagine.imagine_cmd()
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1130, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1055, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 26, in new_func
    return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/cli/imagine.py", line 70, in imagine_cmd
    return _imagine_cmd(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/cli/shared.py", line 185, in _imagine_cmd
    filenames = imagine_image_files(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/api.py", line 104, in imagine_image_files
    for result in imagine(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/api.py", line 284, in imagine
    result = generate(prompt, i, debug_img_callback, progress_img_callback,
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/api.py", line 191, in generate
    result = _generate_single_image(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/api.py", line 315, in _generate_single_image
    model = get_diffusion_model(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/model_manager.py", line 201, in get_diffusion_model
    return _get_diffusion_model(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/model_manager.py", line 269, in _get_diffusion_model
    model.num_timesteps_cond  # noqa
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/model_manager.py", line 73, in __getattr__
    model = load_model_from_config(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/model_manager.py", line 159, in load_model_from_config
    model = instantiate_from_config(config.model)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/utils.py", line 63, in instantiate_from_config
    return _cls(**params)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/modules/diffusion/ddpm.py", line 775, in __init__
    self.instantiate_cond_stage(cond_stage_config)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/modules/diffusion/ddpm.py", line 871, in instantiate_cond_stage
    model = instantiate_from_config(config)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/utils.py", line 63, in instantiate_from_config
    return _cls(**params)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/imaginairy/modules/clip_embedders.py", line 21, in __init__
    self.tokenizer = CLIPTokenizer.from_pretrained(version)
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 1763, in from_pretrained
    resolved_vocab_files[file_id] = cached_file(
  File "/Users/foo/src/imaginAIry/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py", line 424, in cached_file
    raise EnvironmentError(
OSError: openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 is not a local folder and is not a valid model identifier listed on 'https://huggingface.co/models'
If this is a private repository, make sure to pass a token having permission to this repo with `use_auth_token` or log in with `huggingface-cli login` and pass `use_auth_token=True`.

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