Why is My Old Automation Workflow Still Active After Updating It?

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Trying to create an automation that syncs my gcals and I built a workflow thats working but when I optimized the steps to just 2, the old workflow that has 7 steps is still firing somehow. When I click on it in the events history it 404s. How is an old workflow still active?

Did you update the original workflow and deploy a new version? Or did you create an entirely new workflow and deleted the original one?

updated original workflow and deployed new version

Gotcha, could you share workflow URL so I can take a look at it?

can you see that ?

Yes I can, thanks

Let me check with the team what’s happening here

Question - how did you delete the workflow agent?

Wait so to confirm - I’m looking at the workflow

It seems the original one (7 steps) was deleted. The new one (2 steps) is another workflow

Can you tell me how went your conversation with String? Did you ask it to update the workflow? Or did you ask it to delete and create a new one? Did you start a new conversation?

yea i asked it to update the workflow

but i copied it before that so i had a back up, i thought that could be the problem so i deleted the duplicate

Ok honestly not entirely following what happened, but I can fix the problem - stopping that original workflow from running

And it’s done

thanks andrew!