Edit Form in Document Library missing data

When I try to create a new Edit Form for a Document Library in SP Designer 2013 the new form is missing the Name field.  The people picker field doesn't do lookups anymore either.  Like the Java is broke. 
When I tried to do the same thing on a Drop Off Library for content management same thing as above plus documents stopped submitting.
Anyone know how to do this?  Am I missing something?
David Jenkins

Hi,
I understand the frustration you are having when using SharePoint Designer 2013 to create custom forms for SharePoint Library.
Since there seems no direct way in SharePoint Designer 2013 to create custom forms in a smooth way as expected, an effective way I would suggest is that you can submit a feedback in the Office Developer Platform, it is a place for customers provide feedback
about Microsoft Office products. What’s more, if a feedback is high voted there by other customers, it is promising that Microsoft Product Team will take it into consideration when designing the next version in the future.
http://officespdev.uservoice.com/
As a workaround, if solution with custom code is accepted in your scenario, I suggest you create a totally new page(not form page) for this library use only. We can use the common web developing technology to design the style, there are also rich exposed
APIs can be called for the data accessing(such as uploading file, updating item). It would be more flexible to create custom solution in this way comparing to the limited functionalities provided in SharePoint Designer 2013. 
Thanks for your understanding.
Best regards      
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