diff --git a/R/api_plot_raster.R b/R/api_plot_raster.R
index 1d2f08c9..36bea5e3 100644
--- a/R/api_plot_raster.R
+++ b/R/api_plot_raster.R
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
             .tile_filter_bands(bands = band) |>
             .tile_filter_dates(dates = date) |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
             .tile_filter_bands(bands = band) |>
             .tile_filter_dates(dates = dates) |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
     # select the files to be plotted
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
             .tile_filter_bands(bands = c(red, green, blue)) |>
             .tile_filter_dates(dates = date) |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
 
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
     if (.has(roi)) {
         tile <- tile |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
     # size of data to be read
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@
     if (.has(roi)) {
         tile <- tile |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
     # size of data to be read
diff --git a/R/api_utils.R b/R/api_utils.R
index 52010fcc..f1a0117c 100644
--- a/R/api_utils.R
+++ b/R/api_utils.R
@@ -349,3 +349,20 @@ NULL
 .map_dfc <- function(x, fn, ...) {
     purrr::list_cbind(lapply(x, fn, ...))
 }
+#' @title       Function that returns a random subdirectory of tempdir()
+#' @description Generates a random subdir
+#' @noRd
+#' @keywords internal
+#' @returns  Name of a valid subdir of tempdir()
+#'
+.rand_sub_tempdir <- function() {
+    new_dir <- FALSE
+    while (!new_dir) {
+        new_temp_dir <- paste0(tempdir(), "/", sample(1:10000, size = 1))
+        if (!dir.exists(new_temp_dir)) {
+            dir.create(new_temp_dir)
+            new_dir <- TRUE
+        }
+    }
+    return(new_temp_dir)
+}
diff --git a/R/sits_plot.R b/R/sits_plot.R
index 6b6454e3..cba4034a 100644
--- a/R/sits_plot.R
+++ b/R/sits_plot.R
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ plot.dem_cube <- function(x, ...,
         tile <- tile |>
             .tile_filter_bands(bands = band) |>
             .crop(roi = roi,
-                  output_dir = tempdir(),
+                  output_dir = .rand_sub_tempdir(),
                   progress = FALSE)
     }
     # select the file to be plotted