This is a child issue of a huge "refactor upload" issue #6656.
This is something we've been meaning to do literally for years; really a shame we haven't done it yet.
This part of the system is somewhat counter-intuitive (total of 3 different temp. locations involved) and it keeps confusing installation admins. But documenting it should be fairly trivial.
One slightly non-trivial thing we should investigate in the process is whether there is a simpler/more elegant way to configure the upload directory used by PrimeFaces than the one that's currently available. (see the parent issue for more details)