12 MB in temp folder -- any way to relocate

[StanBrown]

First, thanks for making this tol available for free.

I'm using the stand-alone version in Windows 7, 64-bit.  I have a batch file that purges my temp folder at login, after displaying the contents to me so that nothing important gets lost. And you see the problem: it's almost 1000 files to look at in par-USER and its subfolders.

Is there any way to have ExifTool place those files elsewhere?  I looked in the config file, but that didn't seem to be an option.

[Phil Harvey]

You should be able to specify where the temporary files get written through the use of environment variables.  ExifTool uses the PAR packager, and the PAR environment variables are documented here.  It looks like the one you want to set is PAR_GLOBAL_TEMP.

- Phil

[StanBrown]

Yes, that worked a treat.  Thanks!