Is there a way to change the location of the temporary worki

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Is there a way to change the location of the temporary working directory that is used by prefect v2

Christopher Boyd · Answer

This should help I think <https discourse prefect io t can i change the location of the agent tmp tmp prefect to home tmp prefect when executing a flow 1343 7>

jack · Answer

Can you find out which setting if any controls the location of the temporary working directory It appears that neither `PREFECT HOME` nor `PREFECT LOCAL STORAGE PATH` is the correct one

Christopher Boyd · Answer

the default behavior is based on your system env settings you can run `env | grep i tmp` to see what your system setting is and change it there

Christopher Boyd · Answer

but that s python and OS specific not a prefect setting

Christopher Boyd · Answer

This explains the behavior <https stackoverflow com questions 847850 cross platform way of getting temp directory in python>

jack · Answer

It appears one change the location of the ephemeral temp directory where a flow run is executed by setting the `TMPDIR` environment variable before starting the prefect agent Perhaps we should document this somewhere