Data Loader Guide
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Install Data Loader on macOS
You can use Data Loader to insert, update, delete, and export Salesforce records. To
use it, you install it on your macOS computer.
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic (not available in all orgs) and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Developer, and Database.com Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To access the page to download Data Loader: | Modify All Data |
| To use Data Loader: | API Enabled AND The appropriate user permission for the operation you are doing, for example, Create on accounts to insert new accounts AND Bulk API Hard Delete (only if you configure Data Loader to use Bulk API to hard-delete records) |
- Install Zulu OpenJDK version 11for macOS using the .DMG file.
- From Setup, download the Data Loader installation file.
- Right-click the .zip file and select Extract All.
- In the Data Loader folder, double-click the installer.command file. If you can’t open the file because of an unidentified developer message, press the Control key while clicking the installer.command file, and select open from the menu.
- Specify where to install Data Loader.
- Specify whether to add a Data Loader launch icon on your desktop or Applications folder. Data Loader completes the installation.
To run Data Loader, use the Data Loader desktop icon, Applications folder, or dataloader.command in your installation folder. If Zulu OpenJDK is not found, a message prompts you to download and install it.