Cut/Paste has gone haywire

General
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all of a sudden (Xojo 2016/macOS) … Cut/Paste operation in the IDE have gone bonkers

I cut something, and go to paste it somewhere else, and what appears is NOT what I cut… Meaning I have to go back, issue an UNDO and try again
If I COPY and PASTE that usually works, but then I have to go back and delete the origiinal

The project is 48meg on disk and contains around 300 graphics (mostly icons up to 96x96)

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nobody? this is driving me bonkers today

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Sorry I can’t help you with this. I haven’t seen something similar.

This is not a fix, but maybe could help you know if what you cut is what you have on the clipboard, also you said that copy/paste usually works, so maybe copy the text, delete it and paste?
Showclipboards app - https://forum.xojo.com/conversation/post/408788
or some other clipboard app like iclipapp

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If I cut from Xojo and paste into any other app it works fine and vice versa

if I cut from Xojo and Paste to Xojo it pastes something, but not what I cut/copied

So my “workaround” is to cut/copy from Xojo, paste into a texteditor, then cut from there and paste back to Xojo

and it seems to be just with this one project, which while large is mostly icon level graphics although there is maybe 8,000 lines of code … maybe related to the Windows issue being discussed elsewhere … although this is macOS

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Wow, that’s a weird behavior. Good thing you found a workaround.

It could be interesting to see what Showclipboards report, maybe when you cut from Xojo the information is only copied to UTF8 and not TEXT, then for paste the wrong information is selected, and when you paste into a texteditor and then cut from it, then the information is correctly copied to both, then there is no problem for paste?

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correct… and in then 12+ years I have been using Xojo, this is the first time it has ever happened.

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The only time I ever have cut+paste issues (system wide) is when I am running VMs. Sometimes it forgets where and what to send back and fore between the host and the VMs so I cut things and they don’t get put into the clipboard.

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I’ve run into this once before. Even relaunching Xojo didn’t help. I had to reboot the computer.

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THAT I have not tried… yet

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Same here, now that I think of it.

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This happens to me regularly, first time on 2018r4 though. restart of xojo did not fix it.
Rather a bad problem to happen if you don’t notice it.

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I have the very same trouble Dave explain, but with Firefox images… to paste an image I right-click-Copy in TextEdit (styled mode), I have to paste it in Preview (that works there), copy and Paste in TextEdit.

I never try to understand why since I do not have to do that very often.

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This may helpful. I just started using this FREE Clipboard manager, ClipClip: https://clipclip.com/

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Paul is right. I followed the same idea and found a difference in the Clipboard.

Firefox add a “prefix” who made the difference («class HTML», 271}, ), the other parts of the Clipboard contents is exactly the same in both cases.

Used AppleScript:

return clipboard info

To be pasted in the Script Editor application, then run with the Copied data.

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I don’t know if this would apply to your situation, but I found a bug in the iOS Simulator, part of the Xcode tools, where the “automatically sync pasteboard” setting caused the same thing you described. I turned that feature off, and I have had the problem in any app since. Of course, this bug only happens when the simulator is open and that setting is turned on.

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Same here, for the past 2 versions i have this issue, so i keep on copying then pasting then deleting the old place as some times cutting can create more mess than it shoudl by pasting the previous data and not the current data. At least for me .

In my case if i do copy a once i do paste i get a , and if i do cut b and paste logically i should get b but in my case i get a , and sadly i relized this after i messed up one huge project so since then i’m very careful on what i copy or cut.

Not sure if this is an IDE issue or an OS issue. I noticed this on other apps as well including apple apps since high sierra and mojave came so i guess we have to dig more into this and if apple is the issue then to submit maybe a bug report there

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Did you were short of free RAM at that time ?

Did you try a reboot and exclusive run of Xojo (Xojo as the only running application) ?

Edit:
Did you try running without WiFi (Boot in plane mode) ?