diff --git a/src/documents/views.py b/src/documents/views.py
index c8062f9ca..312409e9e 100644
--- a/src/documents/views.py
+++ b/src/documents/views.py
@@ -2017,9 +2017,8 @@ class BulkDownloadView(GenericAPIView):
 
         settings.SCRATCH_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         temp_dir = Path(
-            tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(
+            tempfile.mkdtemp(
                 dir=settings.SCRATCH_DIR,
-                delete=False,
             ),
         )