# Node-RED reload flow api not working
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-reload-flow-api-not-working/14263
**Category:** General
**Created:** [13 August 2019 00:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-reload-flow-api-not-working/14263 "2019-08-13T00:31:14Z")
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### Author:  [@ab73863](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ab73863)
#### Post date: [13 August 2019 00:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-reload-flow-api-not-working/14263/1 "2019-08-13T00:31:14Z")
Hi,
We were trying to understand the reload flow mechanism of Node-RED . As part of that we tried to deploy the flow in Node-RED which is using AWS S3 as storage . The flow is working fine but on reload we could see that Node-RED is not finding any active nodes in the flow and hence when a request is triggered the flow is not able to pass the message to the next node.
Could you please help in resolving this issue .?
Regards
Arun
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [13 August 2019 08:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-reload-flow-api-not-working/14263/2 "2019-08-13T08:19:00Z")
What exactly do you mean by reload? What api are you using? How are you calling it?
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### Author:  [@ab73863](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ab73863)
#### Post date: [20 August 2019 12:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-reload-flow-api-not-working/14263/3 "2019-08-20T12:39:55Z")
Hi Knollenary,
Thanks for your response.
We were trying to understand the restart flows option in node-red which reload the flows.
My bad , the observation was wrong from my end . Its working as expected .
Regards
Arun