Comment 8 for bug 1811460

@Wayne,

I was suggesting "less harm done" option. If you follow my suggestion, the worst that can happen, you would eventually notice that you are missing all those fields, and will have to enter them manually. Oh the other hand, if you copy a symbol and change its value but not any other fields the issues that could arise may include: using a wrong footprint and thus, if not caught, creating unusable boards, ordering wrong components, not ordering right components. All those can cost you time and money. To me that's no-brainer, you don't trade a dubious convenience for real possibility for mistakes that would cost you money and time.

Even if we are talking strictly about resistors (which we are not), AND if you always use the same manufacturer and series, the only fields that could be replicated with high degree of probability getting it right would be Datasheet and Manufacturer (if you use one), possibly Distributor - all fields that don't really affect anything except for your personal peace of mind. All the fields that matter, like Part Number, Description, Footprint, Price etc. can't not be reasonably assumed to be the same, even if the part belongs to the same series.