Yes, you can actually perform an update via CSV sending only the columns that you desire. If a column is missing, nothing will happen to those metadata. As for cleaning the attachments… not, we unfortunately don’t have yet some bulk action to remove them
UPDATE: I actually forgot of one feature… if you do provide your attachments column with a header column special_attachments|REPLACE, it should actually do what your are looking for. But do some testing before, I admit I’m a bit outdated in this field.