Transient workflow is not working - workflow instance is not getting initiated in AEM 6.3

Statement - Asset update workflow was converted to Transient workflow but transient workflow was not working.

Solution  :

clear the stale workflows, please follow below steps:
  1. Go to system console (http://localhost:4502/system/console)
  1. Stop the following bundles
  • Adobe Granite Replication (com.day.cq.cq-replication)
  • Apache Sling Event Support (org.apache.sling.event)
  1. Open crx/de
  2. Go to /etc/workflow/instances, clear everything under this folder. Yon can also move /etc/workflow/instances under /tmp and then create a new /etc/workflow/instances folder with the exact same properties of the original /etc/workflow/instances
  1. Go to /var/eventing/jobs and delete all the content under it.
  1. Go to /var/replication/data and Delete all the content under it.
  1. Start the bundles stopped in step 2.
  1. Now try running transient workflow.
That's It!