diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 8428c7a3..76233ea0 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ model_path = os.path.join(script_path, 'models')
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument("--config", type=str, default=os.path.join(sd_path, "configs/stable-diffusion/v1-inference.yaml"), help="path to config which constructs model",)
 parser.add_argument("--ckpt", type=str, default=sd_model_file, help="path to checkpoint of stable diffusion model; this checkpoint will be added to the list of checkpoints and loaded by default if you don't have a checkpoint selected in settings",)
-parser.add_argument("--ckpt-dir", type=str, default=None, help="Path to directory with stable diffusion checkpoints")
+parser.add_argument("--ckpt-dir", type=str, default=os.path.join(model_path, "Stable-diffusion"), help="Path to directory with stable diffusion checkpoints")
 parser.add_argument("--gfpgan-dir", type=str, help="GFPGAN directory", default=('./src/gfpgan' if os.path.exists('./src/gfpgan') else './GFPGAN'))
 parser.add_argument("--gfpgan-model", type=str, help="GFPGAN model file name", default=None)
 parser.add_argument("--no-half", action='store_true', help="do not switch the model to 16-bit floats")