I created a simple Discord bot. The ‘clear’ command works, but instead of saying ‘{len(deleted)} messages have been deleted.’, it shows a warning saying ‘The application did not respond.’Additionally, I’m receiving this error:

'discord.app_commands.errors.CommandInvokeError: Command 'clear' raised an exception: NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction'."

I tried using the “interaction.response.defer()” command to delay the process. The “Application did not respond” warning on Discord disappeared, but now it doesn’t show how many messages were deleted; instead, it doesn’t display anything. I also tried sending a message with the “interaction.followup.send” command and editing the original response with “interaction.edit_original_response,” but neither of them worked.

My code:

@bot.event
async def on_ready():

    await bot.load_extension("admin")

    try:
        synced= await bot.tree.sync()
        print(f"The number of integrated '/' commands is {len(synced)}." )
    except ImportError as e:
        print(e)
    print(f'Bot logged in as {bot.user.name}.')


@bot.tree.command(name="clear", description="It clears the specified number of messages from the chat.")
async def clear(interaction: discord.Interaction, number: int):
    max_messages = 100
    min_messages = 1

    if interaction.user.guild_permissions.administrator:
        if min_messages < number <= max_messages:
            interaction.response.defer()  
            deleted = await interaction.channel.purge(limit=number)
            await interaction.followup.send(f"{len(deleted)} messages have been deleted.")
        else:
            await interaction.response.send_message("The number of messages you entered is invalid.", ephemeral=True)
    else:
        await interaction.response.send_message("You do not have the necessary permissions.", ephemeral=True)




TOKEN = "BOT_TOKEN"
bot.run(TOKEN)

I just wanted my bot to indicate how many messages were deleted as written in the code.