diff --git a/model_adapter.cpp b/model_adapter.cpp
index 3918a184b..023b177eb 100644
--- a/model_adapter.cpp
+++ b/model_adapter.cpp
@@ -82,6 +82,39 @@ void print_tok_vec(std::vector<float> &embd)
     std::cout << "]\n";
 }
 
+bool gguf_tensor_exists(const std::string & gguf_filename, std::string tensor_name, bool exactmatch)
+{
+    struct gguf_init_params ggufparams;
+    ggufparams.no_alloc = true;
+    ggufparams.ctx = NULL;
+    struct gguf_context * ctx = gguf_init_from_file(gguf_filename.c_str(), ggufparams);
+    if (!ctx) return false;
+
+    bool found = false;
+
+    int n_tensors = gguf_get_n_tensors(ctx);
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_tensors; i++) {
+        std::string curr_name = gguf_get_tensor_name(ctx, i);
+        if(exactmatch)
+        {
+            if (curr_name == tensor_name) {
+                found = true;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            if (curr_name.find(tensor_name) != std::string::npos) {
+                found = true;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    gguf_free(ctx);
+    return found;
+}
+
 //return val: 0=fail, 1=(original ggml, alpaca), 2=(ggmf), 3=(ggjt)
  FileFormat check_file_format(const std::string & fname, FileFormatExtraMeta * fileformatmeta)
  {
diff --git a/model_adapter.h b/model_adapter.h
index a542a4ad1..874659d68 100644
--- a/model_adapter.h
+++ b/model_adapter.h
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ FileFormat check_file_format(const std::string & fname, FileFormatExtraMeta * fi
 void ContextFastForward(std::vector<int> &current_context_tokens, std::vector<int> &embd_inp,
  int &n_past, std::vector<int> &last_n_tokens, const int nctx, std::vector<int> &smartcontext,
  const bool useSmartContext, const bool requireFullSubset);
+bool gguf_tensor_exists(const std::string & filename, std::string tensor_name, bool exactmatch);
 
 size_t gpttype_calc_new_state_kv();
 size_t gpttype_calc_new_state_tokencount();
diff --git a/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp b/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
index 42cd1fb6a..7557814ea 100644
--- a/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
+++ b/otherarch/sdcpp/sdtype_adapter.cpp
@@ -233,9 +233,13 @@ bool sdtype_load_model(const sd_load_model_inputs inputs) {
     bool endswithgguf = (sd_params->model_path.rfind(".gguf") == sd_params->model_path.size() - 5);
     if(sd_params->t5xxl_path!="" && endswithgguf)
     {
-        printf("\nSwap to Diffusion Model Path:%s",sd_params->model_path.c_str());
-        sd_params->diffusion_model_path = sd_params->model_path;
-        sd_params->model_path = "";
+        //extra check - make sure there is no diffusion model prefix already inside!
+        if(!gguf_tensor_exists(sd_params->model_path,"model.diffusion_model.",false))
+        {
+            printf("\nSwap to Diffusion Model Path:%s",sd_params->model_path.c_str());
+            sd_params->diffusion_model_path = sd_params->model_path;
+            sd_params->model_path = "";
+        }
     }
 
     sddebugmode = inputs.debugmode;