Extract text from TPS files
To convert your TPS file to another format, you need SoftVelocity Clarion or other Database software.
To convert other file formats to the "Flat File Database" file type, you need software like SoftVelocity Clarion or a similar tool.
The .tps file extension most frequently represents a TopSpeed Database file, a proprietary flat-file storage format associated with SoftVelocity Clarion software development. These files are designed for high-performance data retrieval within Clarion-built applications but pose significant accessibility challenges outside that ecosystem. Because the format is binary and non-standard, you cannot open it with standard text editors or generic database viewers like Excel without specific ODBC drivers or conversion tools. Users typically need to convert these legacy databases into CSV or Excel (XLSX) for analysis, or migrate the schema to SQL for use in modern systems like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
In other contexts, a .tps file might be a Tableau Preferences file (XML-based) used to define custom color palettes in Tableau Desktop, or a TexturePacker settings file used by game developers to create sprite sheets. For Tableau files, the best approach is opening them in a text editor like Notepad++ to modify the XML structure.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TPS file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
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