diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/appdir.cc b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/appdir.cc
index 4ff526881f9..c51ce39f601 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/appdir.cc
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/appdir.cc
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ void BKE_tempdir_init(const char *userdir)
   BKE_tempdir_session_purge();
 
   /* Perform two passes, the first pass for the user preference path,
-   * then a second pass if the the preferences failed to create the *session* sub-directory.
+   * then a second pass if the preferences failed to create the *session* sub-directory.
    *
    * This avoid problems if the preferences points to a path without write access,
    * `C:\` or `/` for example. */
diff --git a/tests/python/bl_pyapi_bpy_app_tempdir.py b/tests/python/bl_pyapi_bpy_app_tempdir.py
index b9892a9279f..d339f23229f 100644
--- a/tests/python/bl_pyapi_bpy_app_tempdir.py
+++ b/tests/python/bl_pyapi_bpy_app_tempdir.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
-# ./blender.bin --background --factory-startup --python tests/python/bl_tempfile.py -- --verbose
+# ./blender.bin --background --factory-startup --python tests/python/bl_pyapi_bpy_app_tempdir.py -- --verbose
 
 # NOTE(ideasman42):
 #
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ TEMP_ENV = "TEMP" if is_win32 else "TMPDIR"
 if os.environ.get("TMP") is not None:
     del os.environ["TMP"]
 
-BASE_DIR = ""
-
 
 def system_temp_set(path: str) -> None:
     os.environ[TEMP_ENV] = path