Clipboard history retrieval

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Clipboard history retrieval

Hi everybody,

Sadly, as it goes... you write an hour long epic letter... And you copy it once and awhile to save it to the clipboard. Now you send it and bam! You find out the online site didn't send your letter... you try to backtrack your history and pressing back on your internet browser, nothing.... also, try to paste it, but you must of copied something else right after you sent this so.. am I screwed?! Or is there a way to track and find your history of your clipboard, from your copy and pasting... I got those new programs so this won't happen again...

But any apple script or any inner programing i could look to, search the last copy i made to retrive my letter?!

Help!!! SOS!!!

-blake farber!

Dual G5, Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on May 25, 2007 4:04 PM

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Answer 1

May 25, 2007 6:32 PM in response to Blake Farber

You didn't mention which browser you were using, but a Terminal command like this should turn up the lost text:

find ~/Library/Caches/ 2> /dev/null -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'someuniqueword'

You need to replace someuniqueword with some unique word that was typed in your missing text.

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Answer 2

Klaus1

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May 25, 2007 5:11 PM in response to Blake Farber

And you copy it once and awhile to save it to the clipboard.

As you have learned the hard way that is absolutely NOT the way to do things. This is the first time I have heard of anyone doing that.

You SAVE (not copy) to a proper file, and you re-save that document after each paragraph.

am I screwed?

Yep!

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Answer 3

May 26, 2007 5:35 AM in response to Blake Farber

What has happened is that Terminal has listed every line in every document where that unique word appears, preceded by the filepath to that document. The actual text has some HTML in it, since the Javascript converted the text to HTML for the website.

You need to open the file of the path before the text, which looks like this:

/Users/blakefarber/Library/Caches//Safari Cache/s/00021EB8.jspa

Open in Finder each folder and when you find the file copy it or open it by dropping on a text editor icon. Most likely it will be a preview copy of your letter. You can also probably doubleclick the icon to open it in your browser, I'm not sure what you will see.

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Answer 4

Blake Farber Author

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May 26, 2007 12:06 AM in response to Gnarlodious

ok in that program searched my word... but, lots of coding came up and not sure what to do with each one... How do I find my letter through such things as that?

Thanks so far! almost there! I won't shut off my computer tonight...

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Answer 5

Blake Farber Author

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May 26, 2007 12:01 PM in response to Gnarlodious

Didn't work... But I guess thats ok... But **** genius idea!
Seriously thanks though! Great job! Close... Probably my fault though!

Take care!

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