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Situation:
I performed a mass migration of regular user flows from one environment to another. In total it includes about 200 flows.
During the solution import it asked me to establish a connection with all the automatically created connection references that were built when I put all the flows in a single solution.
After the import, I removed all flows from the solution, deleted connections (NOT connection references) I had established on import so users could themselves go into flows and change the connections back to their own.
Problem is that I still have the solution with 50-ish connection references inside of it. I can't delete any of the connection references due to them still having a dependency on the flows.

Is there a way to remove this dependency / delete connection references without manually going into each of the flows?
I do understand that this dependency should disappear after users re-establish connections themselves, but Im not too sure and I don't want to have this ghost solution haunting the environment as a reminder for this brim migration.

Hoping for any suggestions yall could have.

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P.S. Why is the forum so slow and badly designed? : D I can only select 'Licensing' as a category.

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You should be using Solutions to do that kind of migration. But you need to have the credentials available when importing to create the new connections if the flows are automated or recurrence triggered flows. Otherwise the user's will be prompted for their own OAuth connections when they first use any manual flow. Your only other real option is to migrate each of the flows individually.

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What other method would you have me use for mass migrating non-solution flows from one environment to another and maybe even from one tenant to another?

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Until all the Connection references have been cleared by user's creating new Connections there really isn't any way to do what you are requesting. To be honest, even after the user's create new Connections the flow may still keep a reference to the Connection Reference preventing you from deleting the Solution. Unfortunately, what you are doing is just not the way Solutions were designed to be used.

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