Feeds deletes node content not included in csv

That is exactly the problem. I selected that option.

The only fields that were on my .csv import were nid and terms. My mappings were nid and term

The feeds module decided to delete all photos that were uploaded on the nodes. The fields that were intended to be updated were updated successfully.

Sorry for my written frusteration. I have to deal with 20,000 nodes now missing photos.

I deleted the entire site out of frusteration and now have a backup running. My advice to everyone is to test Feeds importers on a couple of nodes before updating all of your nodes. The setting "Update existing nodes (slower than replacing them)" did not work properly and I wish I documented what happened properly for maintainers.

TEST TEST TEST.

Again this is an awesome module overall! I was frusterated when I lost all my images.

This happened again.

My .csv file had "Title" "Nid" and "Feature Type" and the importer deleted my photos that were not included on the importer csv file.

Nothing else was deleted but the photos were. I am not making this up. This time I only tested on 5 nodes, so I wouldn't lose thousands of photos.

It seems that Feeds is rewriting the entire node somehow and images are being stripped in the process.

$feeds_importer = new stdClass();
$feeds_importer->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default feeds_importer disabled initially */
$feeds_importer->api_version = 1;
$feeds_importer->id = 'featuretaxtypeupdate';
$feeds_importer->config = array(
'name' => 'FEATURETAXTYPEUPDATE',
'description' => '',
'fetcher' => array(
'plugin_key' => 'FeedsFileFetcher',
'config' => array(
'allowed_extensions' => 'txt csv tsv xml opml',
'direct' => FALSE,
),
),
'parser' => array(
'plugin_key' => 'FeedsCSVParser',
'config' => array(
'delimiter' => ',',
'no_headers' => 0,
),
),
'processor' => array(
'plugin_key' => 'FeedsNodeProcessor',
'config' => array(
'content_type' => 'feature',
'expire' => '-1',
'author' => 0,
'authorize' => 1,
'mappings' => array(
0 => array(
'source' => 'Nid',
'target' => 'nid',
'unique' => FALSE,
),
1 => array(
'source' => 'Title',
'target' => 'title',
'unique' => FALSE,
),
2 => array(
'source' => 'Type',
'target' => 'field_feature_typetax',
'unique' => FALSE,
),
),
'update_existing' => '2',
'input_format' => '2',
'skip_hash_check' => 0,
),
),
'content_type' => '',
'update' => 0,
'import_period' => '-1',
'expire_period' => 3600,
'import_on_create' => 1,
'process_in_background' => 0,
);

Could someone explain the process of updating certain fields on a node through feeds.

I only want to update taxonomy terms on nodes and not touch any other field that is populated. My current importer above is stripping image fields that are already populated.

Anyone?