diff --git a/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/GitProctorStoreFactory.java b/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/GitProctorStoreFactory.java
index 3f6a566fb..72737cb4f 100644
--- a/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/GitProctorStoreFactory.java
+++ b/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/GitProctorStoreFactory.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
 
 public class GitProctorStoreFactory implements TrunkQaProdStoresFactory {
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@ private File createTempDirectoryForPath(final String relativePath) {
      * @return
      */
     private File identifyImplicitTempRoot() throws IOException {
-        final File tempFile = File.createTempFile("implicit", GitProctorStoreFactory.class.getSimpleName());
+        final File tempFile = Files.createTempFile("implicit", GitProctorStoreFactory.class.getSimpleName()).toFile();
 
         tempFile.delete();
         return tempFile.getParentFile();
diff --git a/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/SvnProctorStoreFactory.java b/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/SvnProctorStoreFactory.java
index fa292fe3c..5f2c827e0 100644
--- a/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/SvnProctorStoreFactory.java
+++ b/proctor-webapp-library/src/main/java/com/indeed/proctor/webapp/db/SvnProctorStoreFactory.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ public ProctorStore createStore(final String relativePath) {
      * @return
      */
     private File identifyImplicitTempRoot() throws IOException {
-        final File tempFile = File.createTempFile("implicit", SvnProctorStoreFactory.class.getSimpleName());
+        final File tempFile = Files.createTempFile("implicit", SvnProctorStoreFactory.class.getSimpleName()).toFile();
 
         tempFile.delete();
         return tempFile.getParentFile();