2021.1 Upgrade removed custom Miniconda virtual envs

Question

I recently upgraded from 2020.4 to 2021.1.

I had a few virtual environments set up using the Miniconda installation inside the /Alteryx/bin/Miniconda3 folder. I use them for developing some custom tools with the Python API. When I upgraded, all the packages were removed, and I had to recreate these environments. Luckily I had saved requirements.txt files to easily restore them with pip.

Should I just expect this whenever I upgrade the Alteryx version? Is there is some for the installer to need to upgrade packages in the base conda environment during upgrades?

Thanks

erikrogers88 · Answer

To answer my own question, when upgrading Alteryx it will completely reinstall the Miniconda installation and overwrite all virtual environments.