I upgraded to MacOS Sierra yesterday, and since then I cannot copy paste across apps.
For eg. copying text from chrome allows me to paste it in chrome, but pastes nothing on safari or my text editor.
This probably has something to do with Universal Copy/Paste ? How can I disable it? Can't do any productive work without copy/paste
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS Sierra (10.12)
So here is my current understanding of the cause of this and a solution that is little bit better than what has been proposed here by others.
There is are two system processes
/usr/libexec/pboard
/System/Library/CoreServices/pbs
Looks like these processes are responsible for holding and maintaining the paste buffer ( OS X name for the clipboard). These processes also maintain a system socket that other application talk to, that's how they can exchange the cut and paste material
There was a change introduced in the past few month that causes this processes to to fail and quit sometimes. They may or may not get automatically restarted by the OS X. But even when they do get restarted,
But even after the process is restarted the other applications are still trying to talk to the old socket. For which nobody is listening to.
So my solution is to check if these processing are running, if not restart them. And then restart the applications for which the Cut and Paste is broken.
This is not ideal solution, it's pain to restart Google Chrome and PyCharm with dozens of tabs and windows open, but that's bit better than restarting everything
i have same problems with Telex, VNI Source ( Vietnamese Input) 😟
i installed new macOS High Sierra, not upgrade!
plz help me!
This may be wide spread. This is the first time it has happened to me. And now to other computers I'm my office.
This is the first time that something so basic has happened. This kills productivity!
I'll looking for any manager, i`m using unix command line to copy/paste a list of files. Thanks OneBig
i agree with you!....
Apple at its best. Lets make new update, oh we forgot to let people copy/paste ! Well we did add new emojis that would work just fine.
i know how to use copy and paste on macbook/mac
This is the fix! It wasn't just a program I was in, it was across all programs. Thank you!
Thanks Alex
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:
Thanks for the great tip....I had tried a number of other things, and this solved the copy paste problem...
I cannot copy text from the browser. I use google docs and it won't work to copy and paste.
I have the same problem with Hight Sierra.
Copy and past simply don't work!
Me too!p
Have you checked the solution offered by douglasw at the very beginning of this thread? That works for most everyone.
How to you re install system?
Copy/Paste broken in MacOS Sierra
