On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:14:43AM EST, S Mathias wrote: > my /tmp is too small [when i want to use "convert"]. how can i set > imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space? > > thank you! Try (untested): MAGICK_TMPDIR=./mytmpdir convert .. If you need this on a permanent basis, you may want to export MAGICK_TMPDIR in - e.g., your .bashrc See discussion under: /usr/share/doc/imagemagick/www/resources.html cj