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
Fuck. Was it just this the whole time?
https://drupal.org/node/1239946
someone says here is the answer https://drupal.org/node/1498746#comment-6734208 -- which says both modules should be updated to latest. and, now realizing we need to upgrade entity from 1.2 to 1.3.
so. next test is to see if i remove video_id from the partners_fc field collection, should i be able to successfully save without a ghost entity id value in field_partners_fc ?
either way we'll want to delete field_partners because it's full of bogus data now. so, all of that work around deleting a field_collectoin field is still relevant. (tell yourself that)