Allow program to run called files in same folder?

I'm trying to run a program (folding@home) from a specially-made directory, /fold. I can get it to start the main console at startup, but then it just copies all the files over to my /home/username folder, making it very hard to monitor. Is there any way I can either prevent the files being copied before being executed/read from, or allow only those files to run in that same /fold directory?