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title: "Switch from Home Inspector Pro | InspectDay"
description: "What to take out of Home Inspector Pro, and how InspectDay rebuilds your templates and comments for free."
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# Switch from Home Inspector Pro

Copy your Home Inspector Pro folder before you move.

Home Inspector Pro's file and export steps, checked on October 9, 2026

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<dt>What moves</dt>
<dd>Your templates and your own comments, rebuilt in your InspectDay account.</dd>

<dt>What does not move</dt>
<dd>A vendor's stock comment library, past reports and client records.</dd>

<dt>How</dt>
<dd>The team rebuilds your templates by hand, from your .tpz template files.</dd></dl>

## What to take out of Home Inspector Pro

- Your templates are `.tpz` files.
- On Windows, these folders are under `C:\Program Files (x86)\Home Inspector Pro`:
  - Your templates, in the **Data** folder.
  - Report PDFs, in the **Client Reports** folder. Copy the report PDFs from there.
  - Images related to your inspections, in the **Picture Library** folder. Copy them from there.
- On Windows, copy the whole Home Inspector Pro folder to an external hard drive or a file host such as Dropbox or Google Drive. The backup covers Inspection Files, Report PDFs and Templates.
- On a Mac, copy the Home Inspector Pro folder in Documents. Copying it moves your templates ( `.tpz`) and inspection files ( `.hzf`) to another Mac.
- Export your contacts from HIP Office: choose **Data Management**, then **Clients** or **Agents**, then **Export Clients** or **Export Agents**; HIP Office emails the `.csv` file to you.

## What InspectDay rebuilds

- Your inspection templates, with their sections, areas and items.
- Your own comments, as findings and recommended actions in your libraries.

InspectDay · Inspection Templates

![Residential Home Inspection template in the InspectDay web app, with eight sections, the Exterior areas and the Front elevation items](/showcase/s2-template-s.webp)

## Sources

- [Home Inspector Pro, “How to move templates or inspection files between 2 Mac computers”](https://help.homeinspectorpro.com/en/articles/11021826-how-to-move-templates-or-inspection-files-between-2-mac-computers)
- [Home Inspector Pro, “How to move (transfer) Home Inspector Pro between two Windows machines”](https://help.homeinspectorpro.com/en/articles/11021787-how-to-move-transfer-home-inspector-pro-between-two-windows-machines)
- [Home Inspector Pro, “How to get Clients, Agents and Contracts from HIP Office”](https://help.homeinspectorpro.com/en/articles/10874999-how-to-get-clients-agents-and-contracts-from-hip-office)
- [Home Inspector Pro, “Backing Up Home Inspector Pro on Windows”](https://help.homeinspectorpro.com/en/articles/10495211-backing-up-home-inspector-pro-on-windows)

## Name Home Inspector Pro in your message.

The team will reply by email and ask for your template files.

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