I recently uninstalled a module which provided a CCK field. Now when I try to manage fields for content types that contained this field, I get a warning and a message at the top of the page saying that this content type has inactive fields, etc, etc... I would like to simply delete these inactive fields along with any data they contained. Is there any way to do this without having to reinstall the offending module?

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yched commented

Not currently, you need to reinstall the module :-(

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danepowell commented
Category: support » feature

In that case, may I change this to a feature request? :)

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danepowell commented

If I were to implement this, is there anything that needs to be done besides just deleting the references to the offending field from content_node_field and content_node_field_instance?

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yched commented

The thing is if the field type module is absent, we don't know what the field 'columns' are, and thus cannot easily cleanup the per-content-type data tables.

More generally, Karen nor I have the time to take care of such changes in CCK D6 :-(

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danepowell commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

I understand - I guess there's not much you can do in that case. Between potentially screwing up data consistency and simply reinstalling the offending module, the better choice is pretty clear :)