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Bring your data from TableDI 0.0.9

Written for TableDI 2.0.0 on macOS · updated 2026-09-11

You don't have to move anything to start. TableDI 2 installs next to TableDI 0.0.9 as a separate app with its own data, so 0.0.9 and everything in it stay exactly as they are and keep opening in 0.0.9. TableDI 2 works on the files you receive each period, so the quickest start is usually a New job with this month's files; see Setting up your first job.

When you want your 0.0.9 tables inside TableDI 2 as well:

  1. In TableDI 0.0.9, click your avatar at the bottom left → Desktop settings → Data backup → Export .tdbk file.
  2. In TableDI 2, open Settings → Backup → Import from the old TableDI (.tdbk) and choose that file.

Each table comes over as a plain table of values; dashboards, views, charts and formulas don't. A TableDI 0.0.9 license doesn't unlock TableDI 2.

Two apps, side by side

  • Separate apps. TableDI 2 has its own name, app and data folder. Installing it doesn't change 0.0.9, and you can keep both.
  • Different ideas. 0.0.9 is a spreadsheet workspace: tables, formula columns, views and dashboards. TableDI 2 is built around jobs: each period it takes that period's files, runs your rules, lists the rows that need a person and hands the result over. It has no dashboards.
  • 0.0.9 has its own page. Its downloads and notes are on the TableDI 0.0.9 page, and its eight guides are in the TableDI 0.0.9 section of Help.

1 · Export a backup in TableDI 0.0.9

  1. Open TableDI 0.0.9.
  2. Click your avatar at the bottom left and choose Desktop settings, or press Cmd+, (Ctrl+, on Windows). It's in the avatar menu — not the Settings item in the left sidebar, which has no backup.
  3. Open the Data backup tab, click Export .tdbk file and choose where to save it.

The backup holds every table with no row limit, on 0.0.9's free plan too.

2 · Import it into TableDI 2

  1. In TableDI 2, open Settings and go to Backup.
  2. Click Import from the old TableDI (.tdbk) and choose the file.

If you protected the backup with a password in 0.0.9, you'll need that password.

The import only reads the file: it doesn't change the .tdbk file or anything in 0.0.9. Each table is brought in on its own, so one that can't be read doesn't stop the others.

What comes over

  • Every table in the backup, as a plain table: its name, its column names, and the values in its cells, as text. Dates come over as YYYY-MM-DD.
  • Rows that hold anything. Empty rows, which are what deleted rows leave behind, are skipped, and a table with no rows isn't imported.
  • Names, with three adjustments: a second table with the same name gets (2), names are cut to 40 characters, and characters such as / \ : * ? " < > | are dropped.
  • A # column with row numbers is added to a table that didn't have 0.0.9's own row-number column, so every row can be told apart.

What doesn't come over

  • Dashboards, views and charts.
  • Formulas: a formula column doesn't stay a formula.
  • How tables were grouped in 0.0.9: they all come in side by side.
  • Data connections, 0.0.9's settings, its AI key and its license.

From an imported table to a job

TableDI 2's own note puts it this way: Those come in as tables, not as jobs. To run them every period, save them as a job. A job takes its sources from files each period, so to run a 0.0.9 table as a job, save it from 0.0.9 as a file — Export → Export Excel or Export CSV on the table — and start a New job with that file.

On 0.0.9's free plan, those exports stop at the first 1,000 rows.

Licenses

  • A TableDI 0.0.9 license doesn't activate TableDI 2, and a TableDI 2 license doesn't activate 0.0.9.
  • Your 0.0.9 license keeps working in 0.0.9.
  • TableDI 2 is free with no time limit, and the lifetime version is on the pricing page. How activation works is in Your license and your backups.

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