# Default recoding location

**URL:** <https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/default-recoding-location/551>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 10, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/default-recoding-location/551 "2021-10-10T15:40:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sylckd](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/sylckd/32/289_2.png) [@sylckd](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/sylckd)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/default-recoding-location/551/1 "2021-10-10T15:40:40Z")

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How can I change the default location from /tmp to /asciinema

Note: In AWS If you stop and start the VM, you will loose all the files stored in /tmp

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**Author:** ![ku1ik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/discourse.asciinema.org/ku1ik/32/171_2.png) [@ku1ik](https://discourse.asciinema.org/u/ku1ik)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.asciinema.org/t/default-recoding-location/551/2 "2022-02-06T15:21:17Z")

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asciinema uses `tempfile.mkstemp` function. It should be possible to set `TMP` env var to point to a different place. See [tempfile — Generate temporary files and directories — Python 3.10.2 documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.mkstemp)