diff --git a/src/sage/combinat/designs/ext_rep.py b/src/sage/combinat/designs/ext_rep.py
index 57f3b7eb636..533d22e865d 100644
--- a/src/sage/combinat/designs/ext_rep.py
+++ b/src/sage/combinat/designs/ext_rep.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
-from sage.misc.all import tmp_filename
+from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_filename
 
 
 XML_NAMESPACE   = 'http://designtheory.org/xml-namespace'
diff --git a/src/sage/databases/sql_db.py b/src/sage/databases/sql_db.py
index 5a14e45be94..8cbc2d0f34f 100644
--- a/src/sage/databases/sql_db.py
+++ b/src/sage/databases/sql_db.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 import sqlite3 as sqlite
 import os
 import re
-from sage.misc.all import tmp_filename
+from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_filename
 from sage.structure.sage_object import SageObject
 
 sqlite_keywords = ['ABORT','ACTION','ADD','AFTER','ALL','ALTER','ANALYZE',
diff --git a/src/sage/interfaces/phc.py b/src/sage/interfaces/phc.py
index bfd0806c97c..ee95eb99e19 100644
--- a/src/sage/interfaces/phc.py
+++ b/src/sage/interfaces/phc.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 import pexpect
 import random
 
-from sage.misc.all import tmp_filename
+from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_filename
 from sage.rings.real_mpfr import RR
 from sage.rings.all import CC
 from sage.rings.integer import Integer
diff --git a/src/sage/misc/citation.pyx b/src/sage/misc/citation.pyx
index 19231769501..0fdd53ae5ff 100644
--- a/src/sage/misc/citation.pyx
+++ b/src/sage/misc/citation.pyx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Dependency usage tracking for citations
 """
 
-from sage.misc.all import tmp_filename
+from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_filename
 from sage.env import SAGE_LOCAL, SAGE_VENV
 
 systems = {}
diff --git a/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx b/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
index 2a3a61fdce0..1f5aee9762d 100644
--- a/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
+++ b/src/sage/misc/persist.pyx
@@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ def unpickle_all(dir, debug=False, run_test_suite=False):
     # This could use instead Python's tarfile module
     if dir.endswith('.tar.bz2'):
         # create a temporary directory
-        from sage.misc.all import tmp_dir
+        from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_dir
         T = tmp_dir()
         # extract tarball to it
         os.system('cd "%s"; bunzip2 -c "%s" | tar fx - '%(T, os.path.abspath(dir)))
diff --git a/src/sage/repl/ipython_extension.py b/src/sage/repl/ipython_extension.py
index ded5cdbde78..0898c5334e0 100644
--- a/src/sage/repl/ipython_extension.py
+++ b/src/sage/repl/ipython_extension.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
     sage: import os, re
     sage: from sage.repl.interpreter import get_test_shell
-    sage: from sage.misc.all import tmp_dir
+    sage: from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_dir
     sage: shell = get_test_shell()
     sage: TMP = tmp_dir()
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def runfile(self, s):
 
             sage: import os
             sage: from sage.repl.interpreter import get_test_shell
-            sage: from sage.misc.all import tmp_dir
+            sage: from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_dir
             sage: shell = get_test_shell()
             sage: tmp = os.path.join(tmp_dir(), 'run_cell.py')
             sage: with open(tmp, 'w') as f:
diff --git a/src/sage/sat/solvers/dimacs.py b/src/sage/sat/solvers/dimacs.py
index abc94569f59..7fb9ef7c667 100644
--- a/src/sage/sat/solvers/dimacs.py
+++ b/src/sage/sat/solvers/dimacs.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 import shlex
 
 from sage.sat.solvers.satsolver import SatSolver
-from sage.misc.all import tmp_filename
+from sage.misc.temporary_file import tmp_filename
 from time import sleep