diff --git a/book/chapters/chapter11/large-scale_benchmarking.qmd b/book/chapters/chapter11/large-scale_benchmarking.qmd
index c1d5c05a4..08f7ce825 100644
--- a/book/chapters/chapter11/large-scale_benchmarking.qmd
+++ b/book/chapters/chapter11/large-scale_benchmarking.qmd
@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ We also set the registry's `seed` to `1` and the `packages` to `"mlr3verse"`, wh
 
 ```{r, include = FALSE}
 #| cache: false
-if (dir.exists("experiments")) {
-  unlink("experiments", recursive = TRUE)
+if (dir.exists("~/experiments")) {
+  unlink("~/experiments", recursive = TRUE)
 }
 ```
 
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ library(batchtools)
 
 # create registry
 reg = makeExperimentRegistry(
-  file.dir = "./experiments",
+  file.dir = "~/experiments",
   seed = 1,
   packages = "mlr3verse"
 )
@@ -587,15 +587,15 @@ Again we start by creating an experiment registry.
 
 ```{r, include = FALSE}
 #| cache: false
-if (dir.exists("experiments-custom")) {
-  unlink("experiments-custom", recursive = TRUE)
+if (dir.exists("~/experiments-custom")) {
+  unlink("~/experiments-custom", recursive = TRUE)
 }
 ```
 
 ```{r large_benchmarking-046, message = FALSE}
 #| cache: false
 reg = makeExperimentRegistry(
-  file.dir = "./experiments-custom",
+  file.dir = "~/experiments-custom",
   seed = 1,
   packages = "mlr3verse"
 )