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Norm GilbertNorm Gilbert 

Data Loader Bug Report

I am working through Trailhead and doing the Superbadge for Reports & Dashboards.

I am using the Salesforce Data Loader App for Mac Version 39.

I am not a Salesforce Paid Customer and do not work for a company with a Salesforce license.

This is a repeatable issue with Data Loader:

When I am on the step to map fields from my source file to the selected object, the app will frequently lock up with the Spinning Beachball of Death. This seems to happen if I drag and drop fields and don't get them in precisely the right place or more often when I try to drag a field up and away from my import file to "put it back in the list of fields available in the object" or to put it on the right line to match my import field. This happens when I am working quickly with drag and drop.

The Spinning Beachball of Death is just that. The Data Loader is locked up and the only way out is to Force Quit, losing my work, and forcing me to go through the log in steps again.

I am using Mac OSX Sierra version 10.12.3.

This lockup has happened repeatedly and so I can only conclude it is a bug in the Data Loader code that needs to be addressed.