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Even though I specify specific files for output, there are still a lot of temporary data being written to C:\Users\me\AppData\etc

My C drive is a very limited capacity SSD and it's driving me nuts that I can't tell where QGIS to go for ALL temporary data.

Maybe there's a configuration file (python, etc) that I can change this value assuming there's no dialog box in the UI to do that? Has anyone successfully changed this?

I already changed the option in Processing->Options but that's the "default" directory for writing out files, not for temporary data.

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In Settings -> Options -> System of QGIS, you will be able to see the read only current environment variables of your system; precisely the folder where your temporary data are being written (see next image).

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You can edit the path of these folders by using the Control Panel of Windows (filtering by env at the browser); see next image.

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  • is there a way of doing this not for the QGIS GUI, but when running QGIS functions from python using the qgis.core. I've set the temp dir for my processing to where i want it, but the qgis functions seem to be always do QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-userX'
    – Momchill
    Commented Oct 22 at 10:44
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Some QGIS installers have this option in advanced section to install this Local Package Directory; as it can be observed in following image:

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    – Andrea Giudiceandrea
    Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 16:38

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