My suggestion is to do this using code. IF your using D7, try following code in any custom module or in a basic page. //Use a query to get all nodes of your particular content type. $results = db_query("SELECT nid FROM node WHERE type = 'your-content-type'"); $nids = array(); foreach($results as $result){ $nids[] = $result->nid; } foreach($nids as $nid){ // use for loop for testing $node = node_load($nid); foreach ($node->field_international_activity[LANGUAGE_NONE] as $key => $value) { // Build array of field collection values. $field_collection_item_values[] = $value['value']; // Unset them. unset($node->field_international_activity[LANGUAGE_NONE][$key]); } // Delete field collection items. entity_delete_multiple('field_collection_item', $field_collection_item_values); node_save($node); } For more details please refer [link1][1], [link2][2] This code is not tested, first just try for a single node by using a **for loop** instead of **foreach**. [1]: http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/68765/how-to-properly-delete-a-field-collection [2]: https://www.drupal.org/node/2684165