diff --git a/examples/stamps/do.sh b/examples/stamps/do.sh
index d66166204f..9eb649b32a 100755
--- a/examples/stamps/do.sh
+++ b/examples/stamps/do.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ normalize-by-median.py -k 20 -C 10 -x 1e8 ../../data/stamps-reads.fa.gz \
 abundance-dist.py stamps-dn.ct stamps-reads.fa.gz.keep stamps-dn.hist
 do-partition.py -k 32 -x 1e8 -s 1e4 -T 8 stamps-part \
 	../../data/stamps-reads.fa.gz
-../../sandbox/error-correct-pass2.py --trusted-cov 10 stamps-dn.ct \
+error-correct-pass2.py --trusted-cov 10 stamps-dn.ct \
 	../../data/stamps-reads.fa.gz
 load-into-counting.py -x 1e8 -k 20 stamps-corr.ct stamps-reads.fa.gz.corr
 abundance-dist.py stamps-corr.ct stamps-reads.fa.gz.corr stamps-corr.hist
diff --git a/sandbox/correct-reads.py b/scripts/correct-reads.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sandbox/correct-reads.py
rename to scripts/correct-reads.py
diff --git a/sandbox/error-correct-pass2.py b/scripts/error-correct-pass2.py
similarity index 100%
rename from sandbox/error-correct-pass2.py
rename to scripts/error-correct-pass2.py
diff --git a/tests/test_sandbox_scripts.py b/tests/test_sandbox_scripts.py
index 90754087a7..8a3fbd7932 100644
--- a/tests/test_sandbox_scripts.py
+++ b/tests/test_sandbox_scripts.py
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ def test_error_correct_pass2():
     outfile = utils.get_temp_filename('test-abund-read-3.fa.corr')
     args = ['--trusted-cov', '5', '-o', outfile]
     args.extend([hashfile, infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert 'trusted: 5' in out, out
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 2000
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ def test_error_correct_pass2_fq():
     outfile = 'paired.fq.1.corr'  # Warning: output file in cwd
     args = ['--trusted-cov', '2']
     args.extend([hashfile, infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 700
     os.remove(outfile)
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ def test_correct_reads():
     outfile = utils.get_temp_filename('simple-genome-reads.fa.corr')
     args = ['-o', outfile]
     args.extend([infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert 'fp rate' in err, err
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 132000
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ def test_correct_reads_other():
     outfile = 'test-abund-read-paired.fa.corr'  # Warning output in cwd
     args = []
     args.extend([infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert 'fp rate' in err, err
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 800
@@ -426,8 +426,7 @@ def test_correct_reads_duplicate():
     outfile = 'test-abund-read-paired.fa.corr'  # Warning output in cwd
     args = []
     args.extend([infile, infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True,
-                                         fail_ok=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, fail_ok=True)
     assert 'same filename multiple times' in str(err)
     assert status == 1
 
@@ -441,14 +440,14 @@ def test_correct_reads_fq():
     outfile = utils.get_temp_filename('test-reads.fq.corr')
     args = ['-o', outfile, '--savegraph', savegraph, '--variable-coverage']
     args.extend([infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert 'fp rate' in err, err
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 1500
     os.remove(outfile)
     args = ['-o', outfile, '--loadgraph', savegraph]
     args.extend([infile])
-    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args, sandbox=True)
+    (status, out, err) = utils.runscript(script, args)
     assert 'fp rate' in err, err
     assert os.path.exists(outfile)
     assert os.stat(outfile).st_size > 1500