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This is caused by how Tabular handles retrieving data; it only holds the subscribed documents not the entire collection.

By default, a normal Meteor.subscribe is used for the current page's table data. This subscription is stopped and a new one replaces it whenever you switch pages. This means that if your table shows 10 results per page, your client collection will have 10 documents in it on page 1. When you switch to page 2, your client collection will still have only 10 documents in it, but they will be the next 10.

To circumvent this problem, we came up with a hacky solution that involved modifying tabular and datatables.net-buttons but it's too ugly to share, so my two cents to use vanilla datatables and pass it all the data, and it'll handle exporting for you, neatly.

Here's something to get you started: https://datatables.net/forums/discussion/41493/how-to-install-datatables-with-meteor-js-bootstrap-3