In snow leopard when I copy something and then paste it, it pastes what I had copied previously, not the most recent copy. Help?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
What application? What sort of thing are you copying?
Let's say I copy a line from an email and then paste it in another email. Then the next day I copy a line from an email and try to paste it. Sometimes it will paste the first line instead of the second line.
Then the next day I copy a line from an email and try to paste it.
The next day? Are you leaving your computer on all the time?
Sometimes it will paste the first line instead of the second line.
Shouldn't be possible. I've had that happen occasionally, but it's always been my fault. Not quite pressing the C key, or letting up on the Command key just a hair too quickly (before the C key was really down).
If the keyboard is your normal way of doing a copy/paste, try being a little more deliberate (a bit slower) in your movement to be more conscious that you've actually pressed Command+C with both keys down.
Are you using keystrokes or the copy/paste buttons?
I'm right clicking.
Hmmm. I'm afraid I can't replicate it. Does it always happen, or only sometimes? Are you using any sort of keystroke monitoring (eg TextExpander)?
It's sporatic - no keystroke monitoring (don't know what it is).
TextExpander, for example, sits in the background watching key presses, and when it detects a sequence that I have defined, it changes it to matching text eg if I type b.b.z (without the ., added to supress it here) it expands it to Ballinabranna (the name of a local village). But that doesn't appear to be your issue. As Kurt says, see if a bit of extra vigilance makes it go away, but post back if it continues.
Thanks!
I'm/we're having the same issue, have you found a fix?
I just posed this
This was from a couple of years ago and I haven't had the problem since. Seems to have fixed itself.
why doesn't copy paste work properly?
