The ‘update’ function within the data loader does not allow you to specify an external ID. Well, as it turns out I needed to do just that.
The simple work-around is to simply not include a required field and then perform an upsert.
In my example, I was updating accounts via the external ID “OWNER ID”. By [...]
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