diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 985e712..ba48342 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -178,14 +178,13 @@ end
             @testset "savefig" begin
                 using CairoMakie
                 r = load_monitoring_results(joinpath(@__DIR__, "test.h5"))
-                cd(mktempdir()) do
-                    @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r))
-                    @test isnothing(
-                        savefig_monitoring_results(r, (:compute, :mem))
-                    )
-                    @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r; ext=:png))
-                    @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r; ext=:pdf))
-                end
+                @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r))
+                @test isnothing(
+                    savefig_monitoring_results(r, (:compute, :mem))
+                )
+                @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r; ext=:png))
+                @test isnothing(savefig_monitoring_results(r; ext=:pdf))
+                rm.(filter(endswith(".pdf"), readdir())) # cleanup
             end
         end
     end