Download and Convert To

Every open file has a download button at the right of its toolbar, beside Refresh. It saves the file as it is, or written in another format: a table as an Excel workbook, a picture as a PNG, a Word document as Markdown, a folder as a zip.

Download

• The arrow saves what the tab shows as it is. A folder, or several files picked in the list or the grid, comes down as one zip.
• The ▾ beside it opens a ring of the other formats round the button. Holding the arrow down, a right-click on it, → or ⇧Enter open the same ring; held, drag to a format and let go to pick it in one move.

The format under the pointer says what its file will keep: "Excel workbook (.xlsx): every row on one sheet", "JPEG picture (.jpg): the same pixels, slightly compressed, transparency on white". When it is done, the line at the foot of the pane says what was written, such as "Saved orders.xlsx in Downloads: 5 rows × 4 columns, the whole file".

The desktop app saves into your Downloads folder. A name already taken gets -1, -2 and so on added. In a browser, the server writes the file and your browser downloads it like any other.

A few things to know:

• A table is downloaded whole. A filter you set on the grid does not cut what is written; the format and the foot both say so.
• A workbook is read from its first sheet when it becomes another format.
• A table inside a SQLite or DuckDB database downloads as a table, CSV on a plain click, with every other table format in the ring.
• A file inside an archive or a database cannot be downloaded alone yet: download the archive or the database.
• Past 1 GB it asks first. Progress, and a way to cancel, are at the foot of the pane.

Convert To…

Convert To… in a file's right-click menu opens the same ring where the menu was. The new file is written beside the old one, photo.png becoming photo.jpg, or photo-1.jpg when that name is taken, and ⌘Z removes it again. The middle of the ring makes a plain copy in the same format.

A file inside an archive or a database is only read, so it cannot be converted where it is. The same Convert To… is in the Finder's and File Explorer's menu once you turn it on — see Finder, File Explorer and file managers.

What converts to what

The ring shows the formats a file's kind can be written as, most common first, up to eight. Its own format is left out.

A file that is	Can become
a picture: jpg png heic webp psd raw …	JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, PDF, TIFF, BMP, icon
an SVG drawing	PNG, JPEG, PDF, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP, icon
a drawing: vsdx vsd odg emf wmf ps …	SVG, PNG, JPEG, PDF, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP
a diagram: excalidraw drawio mmd	PNG, PDF, JPEG, WebP, GIF, TIFF, BMP
a map: geojson topojson gpx kml kmz	GeoJSON, KML, GPX, SVG, PNG, PDF, JPEG, WebP
a shapefile	SVG, PNG, PDF, JPEG, WebP
a table: csv parquet xlsx sav arrow h5 …	CSV, JSON lines, Excel, Parquet, JSON, TSV, SQLite, Markdown
data: json yaml toml xml plist cbor …	JSON, YAML, XML, CSV, Excel, TOML, property list, MessagePack
subtitles: srt vtt ass ttml lrc …	SRT, WebVTT, ASS, plain text, TTML, SAMI, LRC
a document: docx doc odt rtf pages md …	Word, plain text, HTML, Markdown, OpenDocument, RTF, EPUB
an ebook: epub mobi azw3 fb2 …	EPUB, Word, plain text, HTML, Markdown, OpenDocument, RTF
a comic: cbz cbr cb7 cbt	PDF, CBZ
a Jupyter notebook	HTML, Python script, Markdown, plain text, Word
slides: pptx ppt key odp …	PDF, PNG, JPEG, plain text, Markdown, HTML, Word
a PDF	Word, JPEG, PNG, plain text, HTML, Markdown, WebP
a 3D model: glb fbx blend usdz step …	STL, OBJ, GLB, glTF, PLY, 3MF
a sound: mp3 flac ogg m4a …	WAV, M4A (AAC), AIFF, WebM sound (Opus)
a video: mp4 mov mkv webm avi …	MP4, MOV, WebM, M4A (the sound only), WAV (the sound only)
a font: ttf otf woff woff2 eot …	TrueType, OpenType, WOFF, EOT
an archive, a folder, or several files	ZIP, gzipped tar, tar, the file list as CSV

What each one keeps is said on the format before you pick it: a PDF turned into a picture is its first page, slides into a PDF are a page a slide, a model into STL is the shape without its colours, a document into Word keeps its headings, lists and tables but not its pictures.

A file of a kind not in the table downloads as it is.

Next: anonymized copies.