diff --git a/services/contacts/prepopulate.coffee b/services/contacts/prepopulate.coffee
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-# Usage: coffee preprocess.coffee projects.json done.csv
-# where projects.json is the output of 
-# mongoexport <CREDENTIALS> --db sharelatex-staging --collection projects --type=json --fields owner_ref,collaberator_refs,readOnly_refs --query '{ $or: [{collaberator_refs: { $not : {$size: 0} }}, {readOnly_refs: { $not: {$size: 0}}}]}'
-
-fs = require "fs"
-
-projects = fs.readFileSync(process.argv[2]).toString()
-projects = projects.split("\n").filter((p) -> p!="").map (p) -> JSON.parse(p)
-
-contact_pairs = []
-for project in projects
-	project_id = project._id.$oid
-	owner_id = project.owner_ref.$oid
-	contact_ids = project.collaberator_refs.concat(project.readOnly_refs).map (r) -> r.$oid
-	for contact_id in contact_ids
-		contact_pairs.push [project_id, owner_id, contact_id]
-
-# Done list is a list of pairs owner_id:contact_id
-DONE_FILE = process.argv[3]
-done_list = fs.readFileSync(DONE_FILE).toString()
-done_contacts = {}
-for done_pair in done_list.split("\n")
-	done_contacts[done_pair] = true
-
-workers = []
-for contact_pair in contact_pairs
-	do (contact_pair) ->
-		workers.push (cb) ->
-			if done_contacts[contact_pair.join(":")]
-				console.log "ALREADY DONE", contact_pair.join(":"), "SKIPPING"
-				cb()
-			else
-				[project_id, owner_id, contact_id] = contact_pair
-				console.log "PINGING CONTACT API (OWNER: #{owner_id}, CONTACT: #{contact_id})..."
-				require("request").post {
-					url: "http://localhost:3036/user/#{owner_id}/contacts"
-					json: { contact_id }
-				}, (error, response, body) ->
-					return cb(error) if error?
-					if response.statusCode != 204
-						return cb(new Error("bad status code: #{response.statusCode}"))
-					console.log "DONE, WRITING TO DONE FILE..."
-					fs.appendFile DONE_FILE, contact_pair.join(":") + "\n", (error) ->
-						return cb(error) if error?
-						console.log "WRITTEN"
-						cb()
-
-require("async").series workers, (error) ->
-	console.error error if error?
-	console.log "DONE"
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