diff -p -up invesalius3/invesalius/project.py.orig invesalius3/invesalius/project.py
--- invesalius3/invesalius/project.py.orig	2010-05-18 16:55:59.322958531 -0300
+++ invesalius3/invesalius/project.py	2010-05-18 16:57:38.181959334 -0300
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ class Project(object):
             ow = vtk.vtkOutputWindow()
             ow.SetInstance(fow)
             
-        filelist = Extract(filename, tempfile.gettempdir())
+        filelist = Extract(filename, tempfile.mkdtemp())
         main_plist = min(filter(lambda x: x.endswith('.plist'), filelist),
                          key=lambda x: len(x))
         project = plistlib.readPlist(main_plist)