diff --git a/src/dirmanager.py b/src/dirmanager.py
index b5228bf..256b9df 100644
--- a/src/dirmanager.py
+++ b/src/dirmanager.py
@@ -20,18 +20,18 @@ class DirManager:
         # root test dir
         if isinstance(output_dir, str):
             output_dir = Path(output_dir)
-        self._output_dir = output_dir.resolve()
+        self.output_dir = output_dir.resolve()
         self.session_id = session_id
 
     def create_all_dirs(self):
-        self.create_dirs(self._output_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        self.create_dirs(self.output_dir, exist_ok=True)
         self.create_dirs(
             [self.SESSION, self.RECORDS, self.HTML, self.STATES, self.ENV_FILES, self.RESULTS], exist_ok=True
         )
 
     @property
     def OUTPUT_DIR(self):
-        return self._output_dir
+        return self.output_dir
 
     @property
     def SESSION(self):