I'm mot sure you can get the original file out, but you could take the tde into Tab and copy out the data to an Excel sheet

If you had a tbwx where the data had not been extracted, then you could (right click the file in explorer, unpackage), but as you have the extract, I don't think you can go back from there...

Hi Alex, every time i do a copy, Tableau is not responding for a while. then it gets back to normal. I'm unable to copy those record from view data window into my excel sheet. any suggestions?

Hi John, it sounds like you're trying to do a View Data from the .tde data source, and doing a huge copy/paste into Excel.  If that's the case, you may just have far too many rows for your pc to handle in memory like this.

Instead, try this:

1. Make a new viz, and add the Number of Records measure only.

2. Then choose to View Data from your viz, switch to the underlying data, change the number of preview rows to show all the rows in your source, and make sure the Show All Columns is checked.

3. Now just choose the Export All button and it will download all of your data to a csv file, which you can then open in Excel.

You should have more success going this route!

I had this exact problem and this was a huge help. Thanks!

Neat trick -  thanks

Thank you for the tip Dave!