By mlaw on

Having a VERY strange problem. The content for every page on our site is being partially duplicated.

For example, this is what I see when I go edit a page:

<p>COMPANY NAME is partnered with large and small companies around the globe to make it easier for you to purchase our products.</p>NY NAME is partnered with large and small companies around the globe to make it easier for you to purchase our products.</p>

Notice how that after the first sentence, the content is partially duplicated. (I've replaced our company's name with "COMPANY NAME").

The amount of partial duplication ranges from a sentence to full paragraphs.

We've been running Drupal 6.x since it was released and have never had this issue.

What the heck is going on? Is this an annoying hack? Please advise!!

**UPDATE**
Solved. Well kinda. The issue was that the Drupal database was out of sync with the live content. Not sure why that happened, but reverted to previous day backup and the problem has not returned since. My IT guy says he's never seen the problem before and not sure what may have caused it....

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Comments

stevenc’s picture

stevenc commented

Are you using a rich text editor, such as WYSIWYG, CKEditor or TinyMCE? There could be a bug or configuration option that's messing this up.

Also, check your database "node_revisions" table (or otherwise find where this content is stored, such as a CCK field or whatever) and see if the content is actually stored this way, or if it's being rendered this way - 2 very different problems.

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Steven Wright

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mlaw’s picture

mlaw commented

No, I don't like using rich text editors.

My IT guy looked into this and figured out that it was a Drupal database sync issue. The content on screen was not reflecting what was in the database. Strange. He said he's never seen that before... nor does he know what caused it. He reverted to the backup from the day before and that fixed the problem.

raven_web’s picture

raven_web commented

At some point my Node Body & Node Teaser became out of sync. I do not know when, or how this happened, but once I fixed my teaser to match my body in the DB, duplicate content disappeared.

I am using Drupal 6.20 and CKeditor 6.x01.3