I am upgrading a site from Drupal 5 to 6, and the drupal message in the title of this issue appears when I visit /admin/content/node-type/my-content-type/fields.

Also, there's this error message:

"This content type has inactive fields. Inactive fields are not included in lists of available fields until their modules are enabled."

I do have the latest version of Image Field module installed and running fine in other content types.

What else should I install or configure to have my inactive image field back to active?

Thanks.

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rob_beetleweb’s picture

rob_beetleweb commented

Hi,

I believe what you are seeing is likely the same issue reported here: http://drupal.org/node/296195.

I've got exactly the same problem on upgrading three of my sites to D6. It looks as though a workaround has been identified but I haven't tried it yet. See comment #17.

Thanks.

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dtabach commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Yes, #17 did the trick. Performed the DB update, saved the content types, and the image fields were back.
Thank you, rob_beetleweb!

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cgjohnson commented

Thanks. I'm having same prob and I'm worried about applying a patch and messing things up.... any idea when there might be a fix to the module?

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parrottvision commented

Sorry - below comment relates to http://drupal.org/node/296195

I did things a little backwards and had to backtrack.

First I install 6.x-3.0-alpha2
Then I had the imagefield issue with it saying "is an inactive Image field that uses a image widget"
So then I upgraded to 6.x-3.x-dev but still no luck.
Then I patched the imagefield.install file with #44 (please note upgrade imagefield.install not imagefield.module)
I ran update.php and it ran 6002 update for imagefield but still no love... :(
THEN I re-ran the update for 6001 on the imagefield module and it re-ran updates 6001 and 6002. It took a long time but it worked!!!

So hopefully that helps someone.

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honeycomb commented

THEN I re-ran the update for 6001 on the imagefield module and it re-ran updates 6001 and 6002. It took a long time but it worked!!!

So hopefully that helps someone.

Thanks! This worked for me as well.

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ozish commented

I inherited an old-ish Drupal site and decided to update Drupal and all of the modules installed. This was the only one that gave me difficulty - I had the same messages as the original poster. So I decided to research fully before trying anything. This module was in 6.x-3.0-alpha2, and I updated to 6.x-3.2.

When I read parrottvision's post about the db update, and honeycomb's confirmation, I felt that it looked promising and a safe thing to try. I simply ran update.php, and manually selected update 6001 for imagefield. As stated above, all 5 updates (6001-6005) were run. Now everything is running smoothly. Thanks!