Day 2 begins! Day 1 notes here
https://technonaturalist.net/blog/2011/01/drupal-7-notes-dealing-ghost-fields
https://technonaturalist.net/comment/reply/43/1223 -- Comment from Jen Lampton Nov 2013 Running cron once doesn’t always do the trick. If it doesn’t work the first time, you may need to run cron 10 or 20 times to get the fields to actually be deleted. Its faster to just manually delete the two tables (field_data and field_revision) as well as the two records from field_instance and field_instance_config. Still not resolved as of the latest version of D7.
https://drupal.org/comment/5865292#comment-5865292
- Delete the records from field_config / field_config_instance
Not a surprise. This probably happens because there's no corresponding record in field_config / field_config_instance. Let's see if they exist now, and if everything's working.
Not seeing records in field_config or field_config_instance for field_partners_fc, and all those field_partners records in field_config/config_instance are still marked to be deleted.
Let's drop tables and drush -y fra again.
(not seeing taxonomy changing)
This looks good. the partners_fc tables are in the database now.
Let's do one more drush -y fra. everything should be up to date.
uh ok. that's weird but let's try to hit up node 43 again.
it works.