How to change path for temp files?

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Set the environment variables TMPDIR or MAGICK_TMPDIR to set the ImageMagick temporary file path.
set_temp_dir_failed

Don't work on Windows

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  • What I do:
[*] download ImageMagick-6.5.4-Q16-windows.zip portable archive
[*] unpack to directory D:\temp\ImageMagick-6.5.4-10
[*] set temporary environment variable:

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MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH=d:\temp
MAGICK_TMPDIR=d:\temp
[*] call convert.exe from this directory for converting files from JPEG2000 to JPEG format.

convert.exe creates all the temporary files in

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D:\
directory instead of

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D:\temp
.

I have some sort of undelete program running on system and convert.exe quickly fills its work directory with temp files.
Setting 'MAGICK_DEBUG' environment variable to All/Trace etc along with '-verbose' cant print temporary directory acquired by convert.exe.

First, which command line options show me the temporary directory determined by convert.exe utility?
Thank you.
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