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Allow exporting and importing paste history

Hello, I use paste extensively for work, where syncing to iCloud is not allowed. Even allowed, I wouldn't necessarily enable it due to myself using paste app on my personal devices under the same iCloud account. Hence requesting a feature to export the paste history to a file of any format that would allow an import on a new machine. We do need to change laptops every so often in a coporate setting :) . Alternatively, having different workspaces which I can allocate devices to or select on demand will also work, when iCloud sync is allowed. Thanks

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    Ernie Yari · May 10, 2023

    Hi team. I also suggest allowing exporting in a text format to be able to read using some text reader on any device. As an option, the copied items can be sorted by date. That'd be a very handy option 🙏

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    Denis · Aug 27, 2023

    It would be so perfect, you could also share your pinboard with employees or colleagues We use paste mostly to answer the clients, and better to have it in one file you could import and go fast

  • RM

    Raed Mansour · Sep 20, 2023

    This would be an awesome feature to implement and have in the following updates!

  • AC

    Avraham Cornfeld · Sep 29, 2023

    This would be amazing.

  • DV

    Denis Valiullin · Oct 24, 2023

    Super cool thing to synchronise some folders between other users And if it is team work the companies will have to buy the subscriptions to each employee, so will be 10 times more users, sounds like good idea for grow of the app

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    TheLMGN · May 22, 2024

    The application stores it's data in a SQLite3 DB at `~/Library/Containers/com.wiheads.paste/Data/Library/Application Support/Paste/`, so if you just want to migrate to another computer, you can copy that file, however exporting to a readable format might be a bit tough if you're not fluent in BPLIST

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    Molly Hutt · Mar 2, 2025

    I can see how this would be useful for all kinds of professional situations, but I'd like to use it for: 1. Decluttering pinboards and paying closer attention to how I use them so I can get more out of them in the future 2. Syncing or otherwise making sure reference info is up to date in the various places it's stored, e.g., that any links saved for reference and easy access are kept up to date in each place 3. If we could export, then import, I'd take advantage of that so I could add labels in bulk for things like links, symbols or groups of symbols, colors and their variants, etc. (tedious to do now, and I regularly mess it up by instinctively trying copy/paste from one to another) 4. Picking out the 1-3 actually useful versions of that thing I copied 264914620^273 times "just in case" while I was in the process of writing and/or overthinking it 5. Easily extracting and clearing out images and other heavy items I forgot existed, by which I mean gifs and photos of my cat that had to be sent to all my friends indiviually

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    Chrisl64squares · Aug 7, 2025

    This would be incredibly useful in so many ways! That said, the fact that I would love an enhancement or new feature likely dooms it :)

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    EW · Sep 15, 2025

    Any update on this?

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    Sahil · Nov 5, 2025

    +1 My company policy, doesn't allow to use personal iCloud on work laptops. Sync using DropBox as an alternative, or Google Drive will be a big win for me

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    Rick · Apr 25, 2026

    I'd love to create an integration with raycast and other parts of my workflow, would require data export or API capability.

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    Marley · Jun 9, 2026

    Can't use iCloud at work either, not permitted to log in so no sharing benefits. This make colloboration impossible.. 😭

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    NiXta1 · Aug 9, 2026

    Use the MCP-server function to export and import history?