# How to prevent Anydesk from freezing your browser when accessing /tmp

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If you have AnyDesk installed, it creates numerous special files in the `/tmp` directory with prefixes like `ad_mailbox` and `ad_connect_queue`.

While AnyDesk is running, attempting to use a file upload button in a web browser and selecting a file from the `/tmp` directory can cause the browser to freeze. This issue seems to be related to the file picker struggling to fetch the `/tmp` directory’s contents.

Unfortunately, AnyDesk does not provide an option to change the temporary directory via its GUI settings or by setting a common environment variable like `TMPDIR`.

However, you can modify the `/usr/bin/anydesk` binary to point `/tmp` to a different location. Since the binary contains only one occurrence of `/tmp`, and the replacement must have the same number of characters, you can create an alternative directory (e.g., `/any`) and update the binary accordingly. This simple modification can help avoid these persistent issues.

```auto
sudo mkdir /any
sudo service anydesk stop
sudo perl -pi -e 's#/tmp#/any#g' /usr/bin/anydesk
sudo service anydesk start

```