Unable to copy and paste after Mountain Lion upgrade

Ok... Just got off the phone with apple care.

We did the following,

We erased thes files in "Preferences"

Then we restored keyboard defaults in system preferences.

Then we reset the computer an held down the option key at the same time

From there, we went to the hardrive recovery screen and "repair disk" and then " repair disk permission"

Finally, we reset the hard drive and rebooted. All good from there 🙂

If you understand that process. Proceed and have fun, if you don't call apple ( not a 5 minute process). I am still mad that it took 35 minutes on the phone just to get copy and past back

p.There is the possibilty that this could have been just fixed by simply "restarting", we won't know until more time passes.

take care

It's been two days... and i am having the same issue. extremely ******. calling apple care, again!

This has worked for me.

Fixes:

(Tried this but didn't work) Turn off VoiceOver One user with this problem was able to fix it by activating and deactivating the "VoiceOver" option in the "Universal Access" system preferences. This might toggle faulty settings to be reset, resulting in the problematic hotkey sequence freeing itself.

(This one worked) Check Text to Speech hotkey While toggling VoiceOver might work for some users, this problem is more likely due to the "Text to Speech" hotkey being inadvertently set to the problematic hotkey sequence. Mac OS X supports a user-defined command to speak any selected text, and unfortunately this command does not double-check whether or not the supplied command is used elsewhere. As such users can easily override commands defined elsewhere. To check this, go to the "Speech" system preferences and in the "Text to Speech" tab either uncheck the "Speak selected text when the key is pressed" option, or click the "Set Key..." button to reset this command to a different hotkey sequence.

Source:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329897-263.html