Comments on: Common Mistakes

By: Tej

Tej — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:50:01 +0000

Hi in my case i had a problem while doing files copy paste, the description will be bit lengthy, sorry for that. I have two folders: say 1 and 2. in 1 I have some no. of files. One application processes these files present in 1 and then paste it to 2. This is defined in process itself. Now after some time I copied and paste processed files from folder 2 to my commonly used folder let us say folder 3 then it copied the files from 1 instead of 2, though I copied from folder 2. Is this problem anyhow related with clipboard’s any limitation? Reply is warmly welcome…

By: Paras Sagarawat

Paras Sagarawat — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:56:32 +0000

My requirement is to “Add to Clipboard” mean i need to copy “A” object to clipboard from some program, then add “B” object to clipboard (given “A” and “B” are the same type data objects) then paste them to a place resulting in “A B”. There may be some different keyboard shortcut like ‘Ctrl-Alt-C’ or ‘Ctrl-Shift-C’ for the same.

By: Marius Z

Marius Z — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:06:10 +0000

Nice articles you have here about clipboard. Nice.
Could you please spare with me knowledge about how to overcome, that MS Ex*el “cannot empty the clipboard” erorr? Seems like your ClipMate catches this and ignores it, making some sound. It occurs when you try to move any text from one cell to another in that app. Well I made my own viewer and only need to catch any simple text, everything seems to work in windows, except that Ex*l . :(. It’s making me mad.
By the way, I will implement IGNORE_CLIPBOARD message in my viewer. Thank you.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:40:59 +0000

Hi Larry,
Unless you’re running a clipboard manager such as ClipMate, your data is gone. The windows clipboard only holds one item, which is why I invented ClipMate back in 1991, to hold ALL data that has been copied.

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:18:58 +0000

Is there any way to pull an “old clip” back? I created a long clip by copying some text I was entering as a journal entry on a web site. I then clipped something else to add to my entry. The next thing I knew I was “timed out of the site” and my long journal entry was gone. When I of course went to the “clip” it was not the long one of the journal entry which I had copied just in case something like that were to hapen; instead, it was the susequent one. Anywhere on my computer where that older clip would be?