
My main suspect is the Windows apps I run via Crossover are messing with something in the system, even after killing Crossover and their processors.Įdit 22/6: I will post a process list and result from kextstat | grep -v com.apple once the issue arrises again.įirst sorry for the length of this post and for the spelling I am dyslexic. Still would like to figure out the underlying cause. It's almost as inconvenient as simply restarting, which was my old fix. However, this is not particularly surprising. I did find however that killing the WindowServer process, which esentially closes all windows and resets the GUI, does provide a bandaid "fix" to the problem and bring copy&paste/drag&drop back.
#Clear copy paste memory for office for mac pro
I'm on a 13" retina macbook pro running 10.9.Įdit 2: After trying a million fixes found on the internet (changing file permissions, /private/var fixes, disabling hidden files from showing etc, killing third-party processes one by one), none of it worked. Should I dump a process list here to show what i've got running or is there a common issue that could be the cause? Going in to Finder > Clipboard shows only one small piece of text which is the last thing I successfully copied before it completely stopped working.
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Not in textedit, chrome, safari, terminal or otherwise. First it's only between different apps such as Terminal and Sublime Text, but eventually it's system wide and stops working everywhere.Īs I type this, nothing seems to be copying to clipboard. For several months now i've had an issue where after using my laptop for a couple of weeks without restarting, i'll slowly lose my ability to copy and paste.
