Bonsai 27B field guide
How to resume the Ternary Bonsai 27B download
A practical way to recover an interrupted Hugging Face transfer without creating several 8.49 GB model copies.
What should you do when the Ternary Bonsai 27B download stalls?
Keep one download owner, confirm which cache it uses, and resume into that same Hugging Face cache. Do not start downloads in several applications. The MLX weight file is 8,490,785,104 bytes, so duplicate partial files can consume many gigabytes without producing a runnable model.
Why the first transfer caused trouble
The model was being fetched inside a short task window. The transfer stopped before the weight file completed, while later attempts looked at different cache locations. The work appeared stalled even though partial data existed.
The fix was to use one Hugging Face cache as the source of record. LM Studio then indexed symlinks to that completed snapshot, so it did not download another copy.
Recovery checklist
- Find the active cache and the incomplete file before starting another transfer.
- Confirm free disk space for the finished file and temporary data.
- Use one process to resume the download.
- Verify the final byte count and hash before benchmarking.
Questions people ask
Should you delete every incomplete file first?
No. A current partial file may be reusable. Delete only an orphan after you confirm no active process owns it.
Can LM Studio reuse the Hugging Face copy?
Yes. On our Mac, a normal model directory with file symlinks let LM Studio index the existing snapshot.
Primary sources
Vendor claims on this page are labeled as PrismML claims. Local results are added only after a saved trace completes.