Awesome that information should help me debug the rest. Thanks for your time
Are you implying that two (or more) entries of field_1234567890123 shouldn’t break ACF’s datasources and that these two posts could be updated separately?
I expected field_1234567890123 to have to be unique throughout. It could mean I have issues with my side of the code then, which is quite possible, and I would close this thread.
Thank you, and you are right on all accounts.
Everything “works” when I copy the meta values, but the “field_abc123” key still references the original post and so everything breaks when we re-save the copy post.
That’s why I was looking at the internal functions to find something that would have generated the new field groups.