# Trying to delete sweep gives 'queue \<sweep\_id\> not found' error, and sweep keeps persisting

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/trying-to-delete-sweep-gives-queue-sweep-id-not-found-error-and-sweep-keeps-persisting/5854>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Tags:** dashboard, sweeps\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/trying-to-delete-sweep-gives-queue-sweep-id-not-found-error-and-sweep-keeps-persisting/5854 "2024-02-06T13:45:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![cga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@cga](https://community.wandb.ai/u/cga)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/trying-to-delete-sweep-gives-queue-sweep-id-not-found-error-and-sweep-keeps-persisting/5854/1 "2024-02-06T13:45:14Z")

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Hi!  
I’ve recently started using W&B sweeps more extensively. While I manage to delete a couple of my sweeps, others cannot be deleted. Instead, when I click ‘Delete sweep’, I get the error message as shown in the screenshot. The sweep and all it’s runs continues to persist.

Is there a way to delete them nonetheless? For now I’m just deleting all the runs the sweeps contain as well as rename them to ‘del’, so that I know which sweeps I don’t want to keep.

Here are some of my sweeps which cannot be deleted: 09fr3i51, 3ky163x9, 33c9m933

 ![Screenshot 2024-02-06 143959](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/2X/7/7e053c0a2597fd87fd10170e0738b1b93351f928.png)

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**Author:** ![mohammadbakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mohammadbakir](https://community.wandb.ai/u/mohammadbakir)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/trying-to-delete-sweep-gives-queue-sweep-id-not-found-error-and-sweep-keeps-persisting/5854/2 "2024-02-06T17:50:22Z")

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Hi @cga , thank you for reporting this. This appears to be a regression on our end and we are working on a fix. Will update you once a fix is released.

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**Author:** ![mohammadbakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mohammadbakir](https://community.wandb.ai/u/mohammadbakir)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/trying-to-delete-sweep-gives-queue-sweep-id-not-found-error-and-sweep-keeps-persisting/5854/3 "2024-02-07T17:13:40Z")

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Hi @cga , this is now fixed and sweeps can be deleted. Thanks again for flagging! Marking resolved.