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How do I delete only the properties of a given object? For example, deleting a Contact's (Object) email address (Property).

I am trying to go through my database and delete a large number of emails associated with contacts that are no longer valid. Can dataloader help me automate this process?

I have tried doing this both through the Upsert and Delete functions with no success.

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Patricio Carcani
Hi Rodrigo, yes! Delete contacts using email field in your .csv input file to match with contact id looking up with contact email.
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Rodrigo Baptista
Thank you for the response Ariel but I do not want to delete the contacts, only the e-mails associated with them.

How would dataloader help me do that?
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Patricio Carcani
You are welcome Rodrigo, if e-mail is not a mandatory field within Contact Object in your Salesforce instance you can develop al UPDATE (import) operation to Contacts, using Contact ID as key and setting another column (blank) for e-mail. (previous to this update you can make an export of all your contacts ids to prepare .csv input file). This will also work to update some field within the object.

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