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

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>

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.

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

but that’s python and OS specific, not a prefect setting

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

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.