diff --git a/ldm/generate.py b/ldm/generate.py
index 9577d3441c..f4979f132e 100644
--- a/ldm/generate.py
+++ b/ldm/generate.py
@@ -221,13 +221,14 @@ class Generate:
                 from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.safety_checker import StableDiffusionSafetyChecker
                 from transformers import AutoFeatureExtractor
                 safety_model_id = "CompVis/stable-diffusion-safety-checker"
+                safety_model_path = os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',safety_model_id)
                 self.safety_checker = StableDiffusionSafetyChecker.from_pretrained(safety_model_id,
                                                                                    local_files_only=True,
-                                                                                   cache_dir=os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',safety_model_id)
+                                                                                   cache_dir=safety_model_path,
                 )
                 self.safety_feature_extractor = AutoFeatureExtractor.from_pretrained(safety_model_id,
                                                                                      local_files_only=True,
-                                                                                     cache_dir=os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',safety_model_id)
+                                                                                     cache_dir=safety_model_path,
                 )
                 self.safety_checker.to(self.device)
             except Exception:
diff --git a/ldm/invoke/CLI.py b/ldm/invoke/CLI.py
index d64d72059d..b0d53ec1fc 100644
--- a/ldm/invoke/CLI.py
+++ b/ldm/invoke/CLI.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def main():
 
     # normalize the config directory relative to root
     if not os.path.isabs(opt.conf):
-        opt.conf=os.path.normpath(os.path.join(Globals.root,opt.conf))
+        opt.conf = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(Globals.root,opt.conf))
 
     # load the infile as a list of lines
     if opt.infile:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ def main():
     # creating a Generate object:
     try:
         gen = Generate(
-            conf = os.path.join(Globals.root,opt.conf),
+            conf = opt.conf,
             model = opt.model,
             sampler_name = opt.sampler_name,
             embedding_path = opt.embedding_path,
@@ -129,8 +129,6 @@ def main_loop(gen, opt):
     doneAfterInFile = infile is not None
     path_filter = re.compile(r'[<>:"/\\|?*]')
     last_results = list()
-    if not os.path.isabs(opt.conf):
-        opt.conf = os.path.join(Globals.root,opt.conf)
     model_config = OmegaConf.load(opt.conf)
 
     # The readline completer reads history from the .dream_history file located in the
diff --git a/ldm/invoke/restoration/gfpgan.py b/ldm/invoke/restoration/gfpgan.py
index 66c22d8133..6e23afa909 100644
--- a/ldm/invoke/restoration/gfpgan.py
+++ b/ldm/invoke/restoration/gfpgan.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class GFPGAN():
     ) -> None:
     
         if not os.path.isabs(gfpgan_model_path):
-            gfpgan_model_path=os.path.join(Globals.root,gfpgan_model_path)
+            gfpgan_model_path=os.path.abspath(os.path.join(Globals.root,gfpgan_model_path))
         self.model_path = gfpgan_model_path
         self.gfpgan_model_exists = os.path.isfile(self.model_path)
         
diff --git a/ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py b/ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py
index 317222cc5a..be9f88cdd2 100644
--- a/ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py
+++ b/ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py
@@ -243,14 +243,15 @@ class FrozenCLIPEmbedder(AbstractEncoder):
         max_length=77,
     ):
         super().__init__()
+        cache = os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',version)
         self.tokenizer = CLIPTokenizer.from_pretrained(
             version,
-            cache_dir=os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',version),
+            cache_dir=cache,
             local_files_only=True
         )
         self.transformer = CLIPTextModel.from_pretrained(
             version,
-            cache_dir=os.path.join(Globals.root,'models',version),
+            cache_dir=cache,
             local_files_only=True
         )
         self.device = device