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Step Two: Create the Encrypted Password

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions

In this step, you’ll create the encrypted password using the key that you generated in the previous step.

  1. In the same command prompt window, enter the following command. Replace <password>with the password that Data Loader uses to log in to Salesforce. Replace <filepath> with the file path to the key.txt file that you created in the previous step.

    encrypt.bat –e <password> "<filepath>\key.txt"

    Command prompt window for creating an encrypted password.
  2. Copy the encrypted password that is generated by the command. You'll use this value in a later step.