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
so it seems this is the jam.
ds build-- grabs dev branch of field_collection, ds module updates, drush updbDROP TABLE field_data_field_partners_fc; DROP TABLE field_revision_field_partners_fc;drush -y fradrush php-eval "field_purge_batch(1000);"Last step will remove all the
field_deleted_tables and remove all records fromfield_configandfield_config_instancewhere deleted = 1.