"Check the link you provided" loop when trying to load an external model from Huggingface
Author: paraclete-pizzaCreated Mar 13, 2026Updated Mar 13, 2026
I am experimenting with loading in a Common Canvas model, in place of Stable Diffusion, to provide my students with different ethical choices for their training/fine-tuning base models.
I have tried pasting the path to the model into the Path_To_HuggingFace space:
The process begins normally, and seems to identify the proper url, but then begins looping a red message to "Check the link your provided."
V2
Initialized empty Git repository in /content/stable-diffusion-custom/.git/
Git LFS initialized.
Updating origin
remote: Enumerating objects: 116, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (15/15), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
remote: Total 116 (delta 7), reused 7 (delta 7), pack-reused 101 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (116/116), 553.98 KiB | 18.47 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (40/40), done.
From https://huggingface.co/common-canvas/CommonCanvas-S-C
* [new branch] main -> origin/main
* [new branch] pr/1 -> origin/pr/1
From https://huggingface.co/common-canvas/CommonCanvas-S-C
* branch main -> FETCH_HEAD
tcmalloc: large alloc 1471086592 bytes == 0x5be03f3c4000 @
Filtering content: 100% (4/4), 2.36 GiB | 54.99 MiB/s, done.
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Check the link you providedIs there any guidance for how to troubleshoot this? Is it an issue with the model being linked, or am I formatting the path incorrectly, or is there something else happening?
Source: TheLastBen/fast-stable-diffusion