diff --git a/.github/workflows/automation-msgraph-metadata-importer.yaml b/.github/workflows/automation-msgraph-metadata-importer.yaml
index 5d221fdc59b..51f93906c5b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/automation-msgraph-metadata-importer.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/automation-msgraph-metadata-importer.yaml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
           cd ./tools/importer-msgraph-metadata
           make tools
           make build
-          make import
+          make import-all-clean
         env:
           PANDORA_LOG: WARN
 
diff --git a/tools/importer-msgraph-metadata/GNUmakefile b/tools/importer-msgraph-metadata/GNUmakefile
index 89517267a91..ff5c5fe87bd 100644
--- a/tools/importer-msgraph-metadata/GNUmakefile
+++ b/tools/importer-msgraph-metadata/GNUmakefile
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ import: build
 	# to fix design issues, which are actually issues in the API Data
 	dotnet format whitespace --verbosity quiet ../../data/Pandora.sln
 
-import-with-api: build
-	./importer-rest-api-specs import --data-api=http://localhost:5000
-	# note we're intentionally only using whitespace here since the others try
-	# to fix design issues, which are actually issues in the API Data
+import-all-clean: build
+	rm -r ../../data/Pandora.Definitions.MicrosoftGraph.*/[A-Z]*/
+	./importer-msgraph-metadata import
 	dotnet format whitespace --verbosity quiet ../../data/Pandora.sln
 
 test: build