Copy/Paste broken in MacOS Sierra

When I open the finder and search the files in the folder and copy the search result to paste into another folder. The "apparently" copy is done, but when I paste it it does not glue, even giving a "beep" when I call command + V.

One thing I noticed is the following, the folder data is videos, then the app icon that opens the videos appears, when I search the results all the videos are without the video app icon with that default file icon, it seems that in search results the finder does not identify the file type. When I click on command + I in the search result this text appears in Sharing / Permissions file: "you have unknown access".

This started to happen after I upgraded to the High Sierra, in the Sierra work.

My Copy / Paste stopped working after updating to High Sierra. I read that installing Microsoft Remote Access would fix it which it did not. I then read another post referring to Clip Managers affecting certain systems. I uninstalled the Manager I was using and that fixed the issue. I then had to find another Manager that would conflict and cause Copy / Paste to stop working. In time I guess all Manager apps will fix this issue.

I have this issue as well. I updated to High Sierra the other day, and found that I can no longer paste web address from Fetch, into any other app. Copy seems to work, but not pasting… When I try to paste [cmd P] I get the error sound. Depending on the length of the addresses I’m working with, this issue can turn what should be a simple 2-second copy/paste into a minutes long process. This is killing my productivity. Please please help.

Restarting in safe-mode is like fixing a broken fender with duct tape. Having to do this every time you want to cut and paste between apps makes a computer all but useless. Apple should be offering a permanent fix for this problem!

Same problem here, not good enough to say small numbers only, many people never use this facility. the pboard deletion reactivated it for me but it is possible working in Terminal with Cut and Paste knocks it out again, I did the OSX Sierra upgrade a few weeks ago but also did a Terminal/ Command Lines 10.13 for Xcode upgrade and it might have been from that--just a possibility. I think the finger does point to Sierra upgrade or Terminal.

[SOLVED] After reading and trying every tricks in the book: erasing .pbody files, killall .pbs, clearing pram memory, repairing disk permission, messing with the Terminal command... I resign and decided to do a clean install. Well guess what ? Right after my time machine backup the copy/paste function worked again. So I guess it's a memory problem somehow.

I don't know if someone has already but the fix is in Stackoverflow: high sierra - clipboard not working after Security Update - Ask Different, namely rebuild the cache for for shared system services with this obscure command as superuser:

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache

My comment is not directed to @pastelsky but to Apple itself.

Are we really being asked to convert to safe mode or reboot every time we need to copy and paste?

This is obviously a long time but seeing the number of people with the same issue. Is it possible to have more resources focused on this issue?

Thank you

How can this be? I cannot copy and paste??? Tried the reboot, the safe mode... A software I use started crashing after the update which is bad enough, but copy and paste is NOT ok.

Sierra is the new Windows Vista!

Read my replies to the same thread and see if what happens to me also applies to you. Do you have NTFS partitions, and are you using Paragon's software to paste into them?

Probably the first thing to do is to look at the Info for the disk you are trying to copy into and see if you have write access.

OK, I don't know then. Try reading this thread from the very beginning and see whether any of the expert answers apply to you. I'm not an expert, but some people here are. I'm in High Sierra, which I updated directly into from Yosemite, and the only problems I've had other than what I mistakenly thought was a copy/paste issue have to do with using some nonstandard software that Sierra's tightened security doesn't like, but I found workarounds.

As one of the responders said, if Sierra were so bad as to break copy/paste, they'd have millions of users mad at them, so it has to involve something you're doing that it thinks you shouldn't be that's interfering with copy/paste. There's a way to force quit the copy/paste process and reload it. Again, start at page one of this thread. Good luck!

Ah I feel as if I have come home (i.e. I am not the only one suffering this problem!)

I updated to High Sierra 10.13.3 some time ago but the problem only arose today. I can't copy or paste, either in Pages or Word. When I edit using Word, I get the automatic advice that there isn't enough memory or disc space to perform the function. I can't even copy and paste in the browser window. Hopefully it is a temporary glitch that some update will fix tomorrow. Meanwhile it has got me very worried. Unable to copy and paste is unable to edit text in any meaningful way, and I have a lot of work riding on this. Bugger computers quite frankly. 😕

Thanks for the suggestion but I tried that and it didn't work. Also I have now fixed the problem in a way that seems good enough to me. I used the Time Machine function to revert to an older setting, and I have disabled Apple's automated updates to prevent further issues. My laptop should function in its current mode till replacement some years down the track, I hope. We'll see!

406Dev wrote:

My comment is not directed to @pastelsky but to Apple itself.

And Apple isn't reading here. If you want Apple to hear you, use the feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Try safe mode if your Mac doesn‘t finish starting up

How to test an issue in another user account on your Mac

Best Regards.