diff --git a/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode b/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
index 7fb395a295..daa9f053a5 100755
--- a/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
+++ b/direct/src/ffi/genPyCode
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ if [ "$fSqueeze" = "squeezeMe" ]; then
     ppython $ppythonOptimizeFlag $pSqueezer $optimizeFlag || exit
 else
     echo RENAMING PandaModulesUnsqueezed.py to PandaModules.py
+    cd $DIRECT/lib/py
     rm -f PandaModules.py*
     mv PandaModulesUnsqueezed.py PandaModules.py
 fi