The 'duplicate' feature on the manage content types screen does not work right. It creates a duplicate node and displays the list of fields from the original node as though they exist in the new node, but there are no fields created in the database other than the nid and vid. It is deceptive because it looks like the duplicate type was created successfully.

Then if you go to 'create content' and try to create a node of the the new type, the duplicated fields are presented for you to fill out, again, as though they actually exist, but when you try to save the node it fails with an error message for each non-existant field stating that the field does not exist. The next time you try to create a node of that type, you get the true picture (there are no fields to fill out because there are no fields in the database).

This seems to be a combination of a failure to create the duplicate fields and a failure to clear the cache to present a list of fields that actually exist.

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karens commented

Forgot to mention that when you create the duplicate type, you will see a list of fields from the original type in the new type, and you can pull each field up and edit and save it. In spite of all this evidence that the fields were duplicated in the new type, the fields do not actually get created in the database for the new type.

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drewish commented

Not much to add, I just wanted to mention that I've run into this too.

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karens commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

Looks like this was previously reported at http://drupal.org/node/78444, so marking this as a dup and bumping the other issue.