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Back up and restore your data (.tdbk)

One encrypted file holds everything: tables, workspaces, dashboards, settings. Available on the free plan too — your data is yours whether or not you ever pay us.

Export a backup

  1. Desktop settings (the entry below Setting in the left sidebar, or Cmd+, on macOS / Ctrl+, on Windows) → Data backup.
  2. Export .tdbk file, and choose where to save it.

The file is encrypted and only opens in TableDI — Excel and a text editor can't read it. It contains everything the app holds, so treat it like the data it is. Your AI API key is not included.

Three good reasons to have one:

  • Moving to a new computer.
  • Routine backup, in case this machine dies.
  • Taking your data with you, on your terms and on your schedule.

Restore

Importing a backup replaces everything currently in TableDI. The existing data isn't deleted — it's kept under a new name in the same folder, so it can be recovered by hand — but the app will show the backup's contents, not what was there before.
  1. Desktop settings (the entry below Setting in the left sidebar, or Cmd+, on macOS / Ctrl+, on Windows) → Data backup → Choose a .tdbk file.
  2. Confirm the warning.
  3. The engine restarts (about seven seconds) and your data is there.

If TableDI finds a .tdbk file next to itself at startup — for example one you just downloaded — it offers to import it rather than making you go and find the menu.

Where the data is on disk

  • macOS — ~/Library/Application Support/tabledi-desktop/TableDI/
  • Windows — %APPDATA%\tabledi-desktop\TableDI\

That TableDI folder is the whole of it. If you already run Time Machine or a file-sync backup, including that folder covers you. Copy it while the app is closed — copying a live database is how you get a backup that restores into something subtly wrong.

Uninstalling doesn't delete your data

Removing the app leaves the folder above in place, so reinstalling picks your tables back up. If you actually want the data gone, delete that folder yourself after uninstalling.

Getting individual tables out

A .tdbk is for TableDI. For a spreadsheet you can open elsewhere, use Export → Export Excel or Export CSV on a table. On the free plan those stop at the first 1,000 rows — what that means exactly. The .tdbk backup has no such cap, deliberately: a row limit on getting all of your data out would make "your data is yours" a slogan rather than a fact.

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