From 329571131d62d64a4f49e1acbef49ae02544fdcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wagner Bruna <wbruna@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:34:11 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] chore: clarify warning about missing model files (#1219)

---
 model.cpp | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/model.cpp b/model.cpp
index 7591490..253dd25 100644
--- a/model.cpp
+++ b/model.cpp
@@ -376,7 +376,11 @@ bool ModelLoader::init_from_file(const std::string& file_path, const std::string
         LOG_INFO("load %s using checkpoint format", file_path.c_str());
         return init_from_ckpt_file(file_path, prefix);
     } else {
-        LOG_WARN("unknown format %s", file_path.c_str());
+        if (file_exists(file_path)) {
+            LOG_WARN("unknown format %s", file_path.c_str());
+        } else {
+            LOG_WARN("file %s not found", file_path.c_str());
+        }
         return false;
     }
 }