Alteryx Events -- Batch Job Run -- Question

Hi All --

I am having an issue that might either be a bug in my workflow or a bug in the system (maybe).

1.  I build a workflow that total run time is 2:11 minutes. 
2.  I then add a batch file to run before the workflow.
   • I add the batch file in Events. -- all this batch file does is 2 xcopy's to backup files that I am going to overwrite. The batch is set to run before the workflow does.
3. If I re-run the very same workflow, I see my batch file run, but then the rest of the workflow takes over 11 minutes to run. It seems to get stuck at the macro that I have built in.

At this point, I can share the workflow, but not the data files as these are non-public numbers at this point, but I am not convinced its the workflow.

Anybody have any thoughts or experiences with this?

Thanks,

Seth