clearing Clipboard?

Usually the clipboard clears the next time it is asked to copy something.

In Finder, go to Edit in the menu, and click on Show Clipboard. The only thing in it should be the last item you copied?

Probably something else then, but for future reference the quickest way to "clear" the clipboard is often just to copy something tiny. Select one character of text or a few pixels of a raster file and Copy. If something enormous was in the clipboard it replaces it. If there's an easier way I haven't learned yet, though, I'd love to be informed, too. A keyboard shortcut could be handy.

I'd like to hear some way to clear the clipboard other than copying something else into it. When I started PSE 6, it complained (twice each time it's started) that it can't "import the clipboard because of a problem parsing the PICT". What's on the clipboard is a snippet from an Excel document. I "cleared" it by copying one blank character to the clipboard. This is an annoying PSE 6 issue, but in general it would be nice to have a way to easily (key word here) clear the clipboard.

jastus,

Try this...

Copy the code below and paste it into your AppleScript Script Editor:

*set the clipboard to {}*

Save as File Format: application. Run the script as needed from the Dock or from the Scripts Menu.

Good luck!

Andrew99