Quote - Try setting the TEMP environment variable to the directory you want to use.

Arrrgh.  I don't know why I forgot about Windows's TEMP variable.  Thank you.

Though actually, I ended up doing it a different way: I configured the disk in question to mount right on my "Local SettingsTempQueue Manager" directory rather than having a drive letter.

Having a disk dedicated to doing nothing but Queue Manager temporary files has really sped up the renders I'm doing at the moment.  But I can imagine renders where it would help very little at all.

-- markok

I've had the same problem with some figures, especially the Millenium ones like Victoria 3 and Michael 3. I never found an explanation or a real solution, but I have an annoying workaround:

I rename all the 'Twist' parameters to something else, and make my scripts use that new parameter name (I use 'Twost'). What's annoying about this is that I can't do the renaming from a Python script. I have to go in and manually rename every Twist parameter. I now keep pre-Twosted figures in my library.