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Palmer

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Deleting address fields for all contacts
September 03, 2009, 10:51:17 am
I am relatively new to CiviCRM and have limited tech abilities.  I accidentally imported address information for 1,000 contacts into the work address field instead of the home address field.  Is there a simple way to delete the work addresses for all 1,000 contacts?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

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Re: Deleting address fields for all contacts
September 03, 2009, 12:03:11 pm

Not via the UI. You will need to do this directly in mysql. You could also potentially change the location_type_id in the civicrm_address field from Work to Home.

to a large extent this depends on the state of the db etc. might want to try to enlist someone local who is familiar with sql

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Palmer

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Re: Deleting address fields for all contacts
September 03, 2009, 12:09:31 pm
Thank you for the information.
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