Duplicate page problems

[Theo]

I have a large site here: www.meltonwaterways.org.uk. It currently has about 107 pages and lots of photos. When editing this site I am getting very strange results.

If I click on "Insert duplicate of the current page" I get the added and renamed page but it appears distant from the one that I am copying. It appears as page 55 when I have dupicated page 2. What's more I get a second page renamed the same. In the test that I am doing I created one copy of page 2. news. Two copies appeared together as pages 55 and 56.

If I delete one of the copies both of them disappear. If I rename one of the copies then both are renamed.

Editing one copy doesn't edit the other. But I need to be careful to link to the correct one or it appears that the page hasn't updated when I upload it.

It is very frustrating and means that I can't sensibly use the "insert duplicate page" button.

Theo

[Acorn]

Not a solution but create a New Page.
Back to the page to be copied and select all.
In the new page, Paste in Place (Shift+Ctrl+V).

That might help.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

That is very odd behaviour. Duplicating a page always creates a duplicate just below the duplicated page. Never get a double duplication. Can you supply a screengrab of part of your Page & Layers Gallery?

[Acorn]

I've achieved something like this by copying and not changing the page name from Copy of Fred. Eventually, you get Copy of Copy of ... Copy of Fred, which might cause the abhorrent behaviour.

Acorn