diff --git a/src/bob/pipelines/dataset/protocols/retrieve.py b/src/bob/pipelines/dataset/protocols/retrieve.py
index 14e716d9e97b45467e68af39736e0d6155473869..7af633900dad4edb58dbefb4e2c8177b2a29b403 100644
--- a/src/bob/pipelines/dataset/protocols/retrieve.py
+++ b/src/bob/pipelines/dataset/protocols/retrieve.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ logger = getLogger(__name__)
 
 def _get_local_data_directory() -> Path:
     """Returns the local directory for data (``bob_data_dir`` config)."""
-    user_config = UserDefaults("bob.toml")
+    user_config = UserDefaults("bobrc.toml")
     return Path(
         user_config.get("bob_data_dir", default=Path.home() / "bob_data")
     )
diff --git a/src/bob/pipelines/distributed/sge.py b/src/bob/pipelines/distributed/sge.py
index cc5bb278fdb0255cab960cdc7c8570927a32d7b4..9b6950b7c09964862a0d6c71d7637d4d9189ec6e 100644
--- a/src/bob/pipelines/distributed/sge.py
+++ b/src/bob/pipelines/distributed/sge.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from distributed.scheduler import Scheduler
 from .sge_queues import QUEUE_DEFAULT
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-rc = UserDefaults("~/.bobrc")
+rc = UserDefaults("bobrc.toml")
 
 
 class SGEIdiapJob(Job):