Maybe the downloader should fallback to python's huggingface_hub

[HenkPoley]

..and/or just store the initial download in ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/.

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I got errors from basert: "No such file or directory (is error 2)". Recovered the failed download, when my computer went into standby, with:

mkdir download_qwen3.8-27B_for_basert
cd download_qwen3.8-27B_for_basert
uv add huggingface_hub

Create a download_qwen3.8-27B_for_basert.py file there with:

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

path = snapshot_download(
    repo_id="Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B",
    revision="main",
    cache_dir="~/Library/Caches/baseRT/models/.src/hf",
    max_workers=8,
)

print(f"\nDownloaded snapshot:\n{path}")

uv run download_qwen3.8-27B_for_basert.py
basert pull Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

[HenkPoley]

Ah, it looks like the quantisation process deletes the originals.

Which kind of makes sense. But also not.