diff --git a/lib/private/Archive/TAR.php b/lib/private/Archive/TAR.php
index c939667339..ef2ea83c3c 100644
--- a/lib/private/Archive/TAR.php
+++ b/lib/private/Archive/TAR.php
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ class TAR extends Archive {
 	 */
 	public function rename($source, $dest) {
 		//no proper way to delete, rename entire archive, rename file and remake archive
-		$tmp = \OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$tmp = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		$this->tar->extract($tmp);
 		rename($tmp . $source, $tmp . $dest);
 		$this->tar = null;
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ class TAR extends Archive {
 	 * @return bool
 	 */
 	public function extractFile($path, $dest) {
-		$tmp = \OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$tmp = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		if (!$this->fileExists($path)) {
 			return false;
 		}
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ class TAR extends Archive {
 		$this->fileList = false;
 		$this->cachedHeaders = false;
 		//no proper way to delete, extract entire archive, delete file and remake archive
-		$tmp = \OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$tmp = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		$this->tar->extract($tmp);
 		\OCP\Files::rmdirr($tmp . $path);
 		$this->tar = null;
diff --git a/lib/public/Files.php b/lib/public/Files.php
index e596997a47..7b1b1921ed 100644
--- a/lib/public/Files.php
+++ b/lib/public/Files.php
@@ -88,18 +88,6 @@ class Files {
 		return $count;
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Create a temporary folder with an unique filename
-	 * @return string
-	 *
-	 * temporary files are automatically cleaned up after the script is finished
-	 * @deprecated 8.1.0 use getTemporaryFolder() of \OCP\ITempManager - \OC::$server->getTempManager()
-	 * @since 5.0.0
-	 */
-	public static function tmpFolder() {
-		return \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Adds a suffix to the name in case the file exists
 	 * @param string $path
diff --git a/tests/lib/Archive/TestBase.php b/tests/lib/Archive/TestBase.php
index 80750a1694..bdfe65d430 100644
--- a/tests/lib/Archive/TestBase.php
+++ b/tests/lib/Archive/TestBase.php
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ abstract class TestBase extends \Test\TestCase {
 	public function testExtract() {
 		$dir=\OC::$SERVERROOT.'/tests/data';
 		$this->instance=$this->getExisting();
-		$tmpDir=\OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$tmpDir = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		$this->instance->extract($tmpDir);
 		$this->assertEquals(true, file_exists($tmpDir.'lorem.txt'));
 		$this->assertEquals(true, file_exists($tmpDir.'dir/lorem.txt'));
diff --git a/tests/lib/UtilTest.php b/tests/lib/UtilTest.php
index 18d065c68d..d731085af4 100644
--- a/tests/lib/UtilTest.php
+++ b/tests/lib/UtilTest.php
@@ -332,13 +332,13 @@ class UtilTest extends \Test\TestCase {
 	}
 
 	public function testCheckDataDirectoryValidity() {
-		$dataDir = \OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$dataDir = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		touch($dataDir . '/.ocdata');
 		$errors = \OC_Util::checkDataDirectoryValidity($dataDir);
 		$this->assertEmpty($errors);
 		\OCP\Files::rmdirr($dataDir);
 
-		$dataDir = \OCP\Files::tmpFolder();
+		$dataDir = \OC::$server->getTempManager()->getTemporaryFolder();
 		// no touch
 		$errors = \OC_Util::checkDataDirectoryValidity($dataDir);
 		$this->assertNotEmpty($errors);