Fix whipser conversion for safetensors models (#935)

* fix whipser conversion for safetensor only. error in mlx lm for existing paths

* fix tests

llms/mlx_lm/utils.py

@@ -660,6 +660,16 @@ def convert(
     revision: Optional[str] = None,
     dequantize: bool = False,
 ):
+    # Check the save path is empty
+    if isinstance(mlx_path, str):
+        mlx_path = Path(mlx_path)
+
+    if mlx_path.exists():
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Cannot save to the path {mlx_path} as it already exists."
+            " Please delete the file/directory or specify a new path to save to."
+        )
+
     print("[INFO] Loading")
     model_path = get_model_path(hf_path, revision=revision)
     model, config, tokenizer = fetch_from_hub(model_path, lazy=True)
@@ -681,9 +691,6 @@ def convert(
         model = dequantize_model(model)
         weights = dict(tree_flatten(model.parameters()))
 
-    if isinstance(mlx_path, str):
-        mlx_path = Path(mlx_path)
-
     del model
     save_weights(mlx_path, weights, donate_weights=True)
 

llms/tests/test_utils.py

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(model.layers[-1].mlp.up_proj, nn.QuantizedLinear))
 
         # Check model weights have right type
+        mlx_path = os.path.join(self.test_dir, "mlx_model_bf16")
         utils.convert(HF_MODEL_PATH, mlx_path=mlx_path, dtype="bfloat16")
         model, _ = utils.load(mlx_path)