This is a behavior we thought would be helpful but is kind of a pain. Try changing the path and tabbing out of the field. Then you will see the old path appear below in the alternate paths section. Delete it there and you should have a changed path without any of the old paths.

I tried this and it didn't work. I'm not quite sure what you meany by "tabbing out of the field".

I used a different workaround. It took me a little to find it but I went directly into the database. I went into the PagePaths table and deleted the duplicate entries (the ones ending with 1 and 2, etc). After deleting the duplicates, I went into the dashboard and changed the path to the original that I wanted.

This worked and the CMS is still intact and functional.

I appreciate the help Andrew.

I had the same problem, a page with the name "design" and pagepath "design1". Try as I might it wouldn't accept a change of pagepath back to "design"!

It was caused when I created an alternative page called "design1" and later deleted it.

I did more or less what you said above but with slight variations.

First I backed up the database (sensible precaution).
Then I renamed the problem page to something totally different - "alice".
Then I went into the mySQL database PagePath table and deleted not only "design1" but "design" as well and a "trash/design001" which happened to be there too.

Finally, I went back and renamed "alice" to "design" and the pathname too and all was hunky dory!

Thanks for the help!