Find references to a deleted field

I have an old Mac running Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat XI Pro, it's the last version that gives the missing field's name in the error messages.

You can share your document here or send it privatly if you want me to test it and get the name of the concerned fields.

Older versions of Acrobat actually reported the name of the field in the error message. Some genius apparently decided this information was not needed and replaced it with an ellipsis in Acrobat DC...

Not an easy problem to solve, but it can be done.  

1) You'll need to get a list of all the fields referenced in the calculation scripts on the form. The easiest way to do this is to use the "Edit  all JavaScripts" option under the JavaScript tools. Copy all text and past it into a new text file.

2) Now you can write console window script to extract all the reference field names and compare them to the known field names.  

// First collect existing names
var oExistingFields = {};
for(var i=0;i<this.numFields;i++)
   oExistingFields[this.getNthFieldName(i)] = true;

// Now open text file and extract referenced names
var oStrm = util.readFileIntoStream();
var strFileText = util.stringFromStream(oStrm);
var rgGetFldRef = /getField\("([^"]+)"\)/mg;
var aMatch, aRefFields=[];
while(aMatch = rgGetFldRef.exec(strFileText))
  aRefFields.push(aMatch[1]);

// Now compare lists to find missing fields. 
var aMissing = [];
for(var i=0;i<aRefFields.length;i++)
{
    if(!oExistingFields[aRefFields[i]])
       aMissing.push(aRefFields[i]);
}

And now you have a list of fields that are referenced in all of the code on the form, but do not exist on the form. 

There are some issues with this method. 

1) The list of referenced fields does not filter for unique names, so there may be many repeats

2) Field names that are generated or stored in a variable are not included.

3) Fields that are referenced by a group name will be included in the missing,when they are not.