Text WITH web links won't remain as links when pasting into Community Text Box.

Randall_2023 wrote:

Do you endorse using this product?

I've never heard of it, but I have nothing against it. I wrote a similar tool years ago called "PasteFiler". I still use it on a regular basis when I need to strip formatting. Sometimes that really is the only way to get a paste to work properly. But clipboard utility apps in the Mac App Store aren't going to pay the bills, so I don't bother with that anymore.

However it still appears to work backwards and permanently affects copy and paste functions. Even after uninstalling it.

It certainly isn't going to have any effect if you've uninstalled it. The Pure Paste app does appear to be a Mac App Store app. If you've uninstalled it, including any copies on any hard drives that are, or have been, attached, and restarted, then you can be more or less assured that it isn't running anymore.

Even if you didn't have a 3rd party app in the way, pasting formatted text into this forum can be a challenge. The last time I saw it discussed, Microsoft word did a better job. Primarily the concern in that discussion was the extra lines that Pages tends to insert. You can do an option paste that will omit the lines, but then you lose the formatting.

There is an Apple developer utility called "Clipboard Viewer" that will show you everything that is on the clipboard. When I copy your "<< Problem Solved>> When" text above using Safari, it shows up in Clipboard Viewer as 11 different formats. I can take that clipboard and paste it into both Pages and Word and retain the bold formatting. Curiously, however, I can't paste it back into this edit window, if I have copied it directly from Safari. But if I copy the same text from either Pages or Word, I can correctly paste it here: << Problem Solved>>  When

Pages puts 20 different formats onto the clipboard, with at least 7 formats being internal iWork-specific data. Word wins with 30 different format, with many being internal Office-specific data. At least Apple's internal data isn't as cryptic.

If you are maintaining your own document of handy links to paste here in ASC, I recommend using Microsoft Word. This is a custom web app developed by Apple itself. It has a few quirks. I even wrote a little script to create custom links with custom text that will paste into the edit window. For example, if I didn't want the default behaviour that sometimes truncates and appends " - Apple Support" (or doesn't work when the Apple Support site is down), I can create a link that says whatever I want.

Text WITH web links won't remain as links… - Apple Community

I copied the address of this very thread from Safari address bar, pasted in Notes; then I selected it in Notes and pasted it here, and it worked, as you can check.

No third party clipboard utility.

I just selected everything in Safari address box, Command-C, switch to Notes, Command-V; then reselect in Notes, Command-C, switch to Safari, Command-V

Randall_2023 wrote:

<< Problem Solved>>

Not necessarily.

When you copy something to the clipboard, it actually copies many different versions of the same content. The idea is to hopefully have a version that the intended target will accept.

Sometimes that screws things up. Maybe you don’t want all the font styles and links. Maybe you want to match your existing document. Apps like the one you describe can be very handy to work around that problem by stripping style information. I recommend that you do that manually, however.

As for Safe Mode, that is designed for thing like launch daemons and system extensions. The modern Mac is being transformed into iOS, which has only apps. Those system extensions are being phased out and replaced with app extensions. Although I haven’t done any extensive tests, my hunch is that Safe Mode will not have any effect on app extensions, because they are just apps. That’s an even bigger question for “gray area” apps like menu bar apps, which could be launched automatically by the operating system’s own auto-restart mechanism.

There’s a reason I use the … or other not-link text to separate each among a sequence links (they can get merged or, worse, munched), links at the end of the reply tend to get munched, pastes generally can be inconsistent, and yes, the whole thing here can be… disconcerting. The Apple links get replaced with Apple title text too, which then gets stripped when the paste gets munched. Sometimes.

Doing it the exact same away as @Luis Sequeira1 and works fine too.

There is only one thing baffling me.

In our other thread ( we were on together ) the Notes you had with embedded link with all in light blue versus orange

Do not know if that is significant

Screen Shot below and notice the Embedded link and Mouse Pointer Action doing only a Mouse Over

To me, that indicates there is a true / active embedded URL in that specific text in Notes

Good Point 👍

Just the clear, whatever Default Colour Ventura presented is what I am configured to use.

The except, I am using the Light versus Dark or Automatic

Perhaps our Colleague @Luis S has addition input.

I know he has a wealth of knowledge

Good Work there 👍

Some of the best discoveries are the Self Discovered discoveries

Hopefully, this will allow you to move forwards unimpeded in the Notes and TextEdit application of Embedded links 😀