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A powerful idiom where one object gets copied into a clipboard so that it can be pasted elsewhere.

The copy and paste commands are fundamental to computing and how a particular OS solves this problem is very much at the foundation at how usable the OS will be for complex tasks of creating content as well as saving time.

Copy and Paste can work on text, files, groups of files, objects such as pictures, drawing elements, formatted text and in many cases groups of these higher level objects.

The implantation of standardized functionality and the closely related idea of a buffer lies at the core of all modern operating systems.

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Most reliable way to mirror large number/size files/folders between drives & computers

Often I find myself shuffling large directories (20 GB+) of data between computers or drives. What is the most reliable way to ensure that all data is being exactly mirrored with permissions/dates intact? Bonus points if it's wrapped in a GUI…
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Universal Clipboard doesn't work anymore

First time I've installed Sierra a couple of months ago, I tried the universal clipboard with my iPhone 6. It worked immediately like a charm and since I used it, I found this feature really useful for many use-cases. Unfortunately, this feature…
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Copy and paste from skype includes unwanted characters

I tried to copy the following line from Skype: blah123 I got an error when I tried to paste it into another app to use it. So I pasted that into a hex editor and it looked like this in the hex editor: ¬†blah123 I don't know if that was just a…
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How can I paste an SVG or PNG from clipboard as a file?

Figma allows to me copy elements to clipboard as images: PNG or SVG. I can then paste these directly into some programs. For example, I can paste it as an image into Pages or Google Docs. Problem But many programs need an image to be a file before I…
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Cut & Paste not working reliably on macOS Sierra

I recently upgraded my machine to macOS Sierra. In the last couple of days I've noticed that cutting and pasting is increasingly flakey. I thought initially that copy wasn't working since I didn't seem to be able to copy new content to the…
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Copy files after the current copy operation is completed

I sometimes need to copy a lot of files from here and there to an external drive. What I do is copy some files, paste it in the drive, copy some more files, then paste again etc. But this makes the files copy parallelly which slows down the…
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Copy-pasting HTML into Anki

I used to be able to copy and paste a section of a webpage from Safari into Anki (so for example tables and such will come through). But I don't know what setting I've inadvertently changed whether on the Mac or on Anki, because now I cannot paste…
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There are settings for the clipboard? There is a way to copy control characters?

I want to copy some text that contain control characters (example: LF, NUL, BEL, etc...) Seemly OSX defaults don't let me, if I choose for example a text that is like this: 'abcdNULefg' to copy and paste, it pastes only 'abcd'
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Non-destructive File/Folder Replace

While testing WordPress 3.5, I took the old copy of a site, and copy pasted the 3.5 from the zip file. Part of a WordPress install is the folder wp-content containing all the uploads and themes plugins etc. This folder now no longer contains all of…
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App to manage copy and paste?

I'm looking for an app to manage copy and paste tasks. What I need is to have shorcuts to the last copied text. Let's say I copy these 4 lines in 4 times: 111111 222222 333333 444444 Then I'd like to have 4 shortcuts to paste every one of them.…
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Collect all the PDF in the subdirectories into a specific directory

Suppose that there is a tree directory main, and there are some subdirectories in main, e.g., sub1, sub2, sub3, etc. And there is a specific subdirectory named PDFs in main. How can I efficiently (maybe by writing a batch file) collect all the PDF…
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Paste source link with copied text

When I copy text from a website, I would like the url of the original site to be included when I paste it. This is possible when pasting into Evernote, indicating that macOS indeed captures the source url upon copying. This is especially important…
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How to migrate selected folders (including custom Library, Application Support and Music data) to second laptop with smaller hard drive?

I have an old MacBook Pro that I am replacing with a slightly less old MBP. Both are running Lion 10.7.2. (The older MBP has some hardware issues.) The first MBP has a lot of music, video, application preferences, and symbolic links that I need to…
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Why is my Mail clipboard separate from everything else?

When I copy text from the terminal, I can paste it into the terminal with no problem. I can also paste it into Firefox or TextEdit. When I try to paste it into my Apple Mail, I get: Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled) This is something I…
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Does clipboard get cleared after restart on os x?

Sorry for silly question does OS X clipboared get clear after machine restart? In the simple way. if i copy text and paste it, when i restart machine will it still be where on clearboard, will i still see it on paste it??
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