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Beeping noise when copying and pasting on Keynote

Whenever I will copy & paste an image from the Internet onto Keynote, a loud, quick beeping noise will come up. This is the same beeping noise that would happen if your Mac cannot do something, eg: continously holding down the "Delete" key. This is really annoying, and is there any way to turn this off?

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Apr 13, 2013 1:52 PM

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Posted on Apr 13, 2013 2:08 PM

This is the audible warning from the operating system of an "Illegal Action"


Your Mac doesnt like whatever you are doing, for example, copying media with digital rights management activated or images that have copy protection. This usually has the effect of bloating out your RAM memory so its not something to ignore.

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Apr 13, 2013 2:08 PM in response to chrisdeva@apple

This is the audible warning from the operating system of an "Illegal Action"


Your Mac doesnt like whatever you are doing, for example, copying media with digital rights management activated or images that have copy protection. This usually has the effect of bloating out your RAM memory so its not something to ignore.

Beeping noise when copying and pasting on Keynote

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