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Hello all, anybody else have lingering flows. situation is 1. delete a flow that has a schedule. 2. flow still tries to run said schedule. 3. slack integration is showing error of flow not able to run. 4. flow link in slack message has a 404. this happened to me last year and it self corrected after about a week or so. i don't want to wait a week

so i looked at the events and there is an event for deleting the flow yet the flow exits there

there is a thing called
```"prefect.delete-stage": "soft"```
on the paylaod

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/9856>

Hey Mondras,

If you send us a note at <mailto:help@prefect.io|help@prefect.io> we can clean up this flow for you. You're right that we use a soft-delete mechanism that then allows a background service to clean up lingering flows.

Thank for you sharing your frustration with this issue, we will take a look at our background service and make sure it's functioning properly.