Gallery Workflows with R Creating Temp File wqy-microhei.ttc

Since upgrading Alteryx Server Gallery to 2019.3.2.15763 the temp directory on our C drive (not the gallery settings specified temp drive or folder) has been filled with a 4MB file called wqy-microhei.ttc.

After investigating I've found that Rterm.exe is creating this file and failing to delete it:

Looking at the timestamps I think it's coming from a workflow which updates Alteryx Connect with data from the Gallery. Anybody seen a similar issue?

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PaulN

Hi @craigbloodworth,

Thank you for posting this question.

This is a -completely harmless- side effect of a patch introduced with 2019.3 (DE18722 for reference).

Predictive tools now load R library showtext to address an issue impacting Asian characters.

This library depends on sysfonts and showtextdb that will create font file wqy-microhei.ttc in R temporary folder.

Hope this answers your question,

Best,

PaulN

Sr Customer Support Engineer, Alteryx

raychase

@PaulN - does this mean we're obligated to manually delete these files + folders? They add up quickly on the VM that hosts our Alteryx Server.

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