From 1146ed95dc8a462f6dd500b31165b03fa704904d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Mike=20F=C3=A4hrmann?= <mike_faehrmann@web.de>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 00:11:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] improved get_base_directory

---
 gallery_dl/jobs.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gallery_dl/jobs.py b/gallery_dl/jobs.py
index 4d87b315..dd56667e 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/jobs.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/jobs.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import os
 import sys
+import tempfile
 from . import config, extractor, downloader, text
 from .extractor.message import Message
 
@@ -109,7 +110,8 @@ class DownloadJob():
     @staticmethod
     def get_base_directory():
         """Return the base-destination-directory for downloads"""
-        return config.get(("base-directory",), default="/tmp/")
+        bdir = config.get(("base-directory",), default=tempfile.gettempdir())
+        return os.path.expanduser(bdir)
 
     @staticmethod
     def print_start(path):