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John Wolf

Q: Unable to Copy and Paste

For some reason I am unable to copy and paste between apps in Sheep Shaver. I have a Classic app that never got ported to OSX and so I used it to make some changes to a document. I had to copy and paste (within SheepShaver, Mac OS 9) and it did not work. I rebooted and it still did not work. Is this a bug?

This app worked beautiful when I had Classic on my Tiger Mac. But know I have issues on SheepShaver under SL. SheepShaver is not as nice as Classic, but thank the Lord it exists for Intel Macs!


John

MacBook 2.13 ghz 2GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Also own BlackBerry Curve 8330M

Posted on Mar 7, 2010 12:38 PM

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Q: Unable to Copy and Paste

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  • by Texas Mac Man,

    Texas Mac Man Texas Mac Man Mar 7, 2010 1:17 PM in response to John Wolf
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    Mar 7, 2010 1:17 PM in response to John Wolf
    Have you tried using the keyboard commands for Copy & Paste.

    Depress the Command+C keys for copy.
    Depress the Command+V keys for paste.

     Cheers, Tom

  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder Mar 7, 2010 1:41 PM in response to Texas Mac Man
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    Mar 7, 2010 1:41 PM in response to Texas Mac Man
    Copy/Cut relies on a file
    System Folder > Clipboard
    for which you need Read/Write access
  • by John Wolf,

    John Wolf John Wolf Mar 7, 2010 4:52 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    Mar 7, 2010 4:52 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
    No for some reason it started to work again. I had rebooted SheepShaver a dozen times and it did not work. But for some reason the last launch of SheepShaver turned different results.
  • by cromdubh,

    cromdubh cromdubh May 3, 2010 8:00 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    May 3, 2010 8:00 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
    Hi Grant,

    Could you please flesh out the path you mentioned re System File > Clipboard.
    I was asked to Copy to Clipboard for another application and the text just sits there in its Clipboard window, copy and edit commands greyed out and unable to highlight the text to drag and drop.
    I'm sure there must be someting I haven't done, but at this stage I feel a proper Wally.

    Regards,

    Tom Johnson
  • by Grant Bennet-Alder,

    Grant Bennet-Alder Grant Bennet-Alder May 3, 2010 3:35 PM in response to cromdubh
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    May 3, 2010 3:35 PM in response to cromdubh
    The Clipboard is the magic place where Copy and Cut stash selected things, and Paste takes the Clipboard contents and puts it in at the insertion point.

    "Show Clipboard" is provided as a convenience to you to VIEW, but not manipulate the Clipboard. You cannot, by definition, copy or cut or paste in the "Show Clipboard" window, since it is showing you what is already on the clipboard, and it will not edit anything there or do recursion.

    You need to find a new destination (such as a new TeachText document) and Paste the contents of the clipboard there. At that point, you could select a subset and copy or cut. (Another way is simply to select a smaller amount of stuff before you cut or copy.)

    When the contents of the Clipboard gets too large, or when you switch Applications between Cut and Paste, the contents of the in-memory Clipboard is often stored in the Clipboard File inside the System Folder.

    Drag and Drop was introduced very late in the development of OS 9. It may not be available AT ALL in 9.0.4. You should see if you can get it done using only Cut/Copy and Paste.
  • by cromdubh,

    cromdubh cromdubh May 4, 2010 11:58 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
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    May 4, 2010 11:58 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder
    Thank you.
    I'm sorry for not getting back to you.
    The 3rd party to whom I wanted to send the clipboard contents to, left me in on the miracle and I have been using it like an old hand since.
    Regards