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Clipboard not working

#1 Post by mr » 30.07.2013, 16:51

Updated today. Noticed in this version and at least back to 628 that the clipboard is not working. Even when I copy from within FC (ie copy a prefix when renaming files), paste is empty. Win7Pro x64.
Thanks.

Edit: Copy works, paste does not. IE: if I copy a filename prefix in FC, paste doesn't work in FC, but I can paste the string into other apps...
Last edited by mr on 01.08.2013, 18:30, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#2 Post by Timon » 30.07.2013, 17:20

NOT confirmed in Windows XP Pro 32 bit - clipboard works fine in FC XE 632.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#3 Post by jclu52 » 30.08.2013, 03:33

I can confirm the clipboard is NOT working.

OS: Windows 8, 64bit.
Free Commander XE r633.

It has not been working since r629.

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I want to clarify - it's not working when
  • Copy paste text between FreeCommand XE and Windows Explorer.
  • Copy paste text within Alt-F7 (search files/folders).

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Re: Clipboard not working

#4 Post by Timon » 30.08.2013, 14:18

Still NOT confirmed in Windows XP Pro 32 bit - clipboard works fine in FC XE 633.
In all described situations work fine. Used Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#5 Post by jclu52 » 30.08.2013, 18:51

Hopefully, it will be fixed soon.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#6 Post by Marek » 30.08.2013, 19:59

I can confirm the clipboard is NOT working.

OS: Windows 8, 64bit.
Free Commander XE r633.

It has not been working since r629.
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I want to clarify - it's not working when
Copy paste text between FreeCommand XE and Windows Explorer.
Copy paste text within Alt-F7 (search files/folders).
Try to describe very exactly what you do.
I see no problems with clipboard on my Windows 8/64.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#7 Post by jclu52 » 30.08.2013, 20:38

Symptom 1:
in File Explorer, select a folder,
go to the address bar, right click, select "Copy address as text", 2nd from top
in FC XE, click on the address bar (Alt-G), press Ctrl-V
result -> address bar is now blank.

Symptom 2:
in File Explorer, select a file, right click to rename the file name, then Ctrl-C to copy the file name only (no extension)
in FC XE, go to the same folder,
press Alt-F7 to bring up the Find dialog box
in the File Name box, press Ctrl-V
result -> nothing gets pasted
in the Containing text box, press Ctrl-V
result -> nothing gets pasted

To verify that there is something in the clipboard, open notepad, press Ctrl-V for each case described above.

Best Regards,

Jeff

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Re: Clipboard not working

#8 Post by Marek » 30.08.2013, 21:42

No problem, it works very fine here.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#9 Post by jclu52 » 30.08.2013, 21:51

Great to hear.

Any suggestion how I can fix it?
It has stopped working a few rev back.
It's a nuisance :(

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Re: Clipboard not working

#10 Post by jclu52 » 01.09.2013, 06:03

Here is what I tried -
I renamed my existing Free Commander XE installation folder to "Free Commander XE 0".
I copied the compressed ZIP file (http://www.freecommander.com/bet.../fre ... rtable.zip) contents to a blank folder named "Free Commander XE".
I start up Free Commander XE (r633). Press Alt-G to paste in a full folder path I copied from File Explorer - it does not work.
I right clicked via keyboard to bring up the context sensitive menu in the Alt-G box. Select "Paste", nothing happens.

I then started XE from the old folder "Free Commander XE 0". Performed the same listed above. Got the same result.

Exactly the same result in Alt-F7 (Search files/folders) dialog box.

Any suggestion I might get the copy paste work in XE?

I also tried the same in the original FreeCommander and it works fine for both Alt-G (address bar) and Alt-F7 (File / Folder search).

Please help.

Thanks.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#11 Post by Marek » 10.09.2013, 20:28

Please copy the compressed ZIP file to any new folder, e.g. c:\test.
You have now: c:\test\FreeCommanderXE.
Create the folder c:\test\FreeCommanderXE\SETTINGS.
Create new empty file freecommander.ini in the folder c:\test\FreeCommanderXE\SETTINGS.
Be sure you have no freecommander.ini in the folder c:\test\FreeCommanderXE.
Start c:\test\FreeCommanderXE\freecommander.exe and test now.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#12 Post by jclu52 » 11.09.2013, 05:52

Thanks for the instruction.

I did exactly the same and was unable to Paste into Alt-G and Alt-F7 use either right-click or Ctrl-V.

Here is the directory listing of the newly created folder "FC XE"

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Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is F423-8184

 Directory of D:\apps2\freeApps\Tools\FC XE

09/10/2013  11:50 PM    <DIR>          .
09/10/2013  11:50 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/10/2013  11:50 PM                 0 dirList.txt
01/20/2012  10:15 PM            54,784 FcContextMenu64.exe
06/14/2012  11:21 PM            72,192 FCIcons.dll
12/05/2011  10:59 PM           433,152 FCSFXStub.exe
12/05/2011  10:59 PM           101,888 FCWinERedirect.exe
01/21/2012  10:03 PM            61,485 fc_info.dat
02/17/2009  11:06 PM            69,454 fc_ShortCuts_en.htm
07/21/2012  05:32 PM         3,184,128 FreeCommander.exe
06/12/2007  10:25 PM               852 freeCommander.exe.manifest
07/21/2012  05:32 PM               400 FreeCommander.md5
05/30/2001  02:00 AM           352,256 ijl15.dll
10/26/2007  10:44 PM            15,541 licence_eng.rtf
09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          LNG
09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          SETTINGS
              12 File(s)      4,346,132 bytes

 Directory of D:\apps2\freeApps\Tools\FC XE\LNG

09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          .
09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          ..
06/01/2012  09:20 PM           118,519 Bulgarian.lng
06/21/2012  12:00 PM            74,232 Catalan.lng
06/29/2012  08:54 PM            62,314 Chinese_s.lng
07/12/2012  09:04 PM            73,236 Czech.lng
07/16/2012  09:27 PM            69,461 Danish.lng
07/21/2012  07:34 PM            74,081 Deutsch.lng
05/26/2012  07:13 PM            72,263 Dutch.lng
07/16/2012  09:58 PM            63,639 English.lng
11/30/2011  09:53 PM            55,901 Finnish.lng
05/17/2012  09:45 PM            76,127 French.lng
05/03/2012  08:24 PM            69,691 Italian.lng
06/12/2012  06:49 PM            71,356 Korean.lng
07/01/2012  03:41 PM            72,260 Polski.lng
07/09/2012  08:57 AM           107,066 Russian.lng
12/12/2011  01:05 PM            82,053 Serbian.lng
05/18/2012  11:03 PM            76,551 Slovak.lng
05/18/2012  08:29 PM            69,583 Slovenian.lng
07/18/2012  10:07 PM            72,807 Spanish-Colombia.lng
07/16/2012  09:22 PM            68,301 Spanish-Spain.lng
              19 File(s)      1,429,441 bytes

 Directory of D:\apps2\freeApps\Tools\FC XE\SETTINGS

09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          .
09/10/2013  11:49 PM    <DIR>          ..
09/10/2013  11:49 PM                75 FreeCommander.fav.xml
09/10/2013  11:49 PM               374 FreeCommander.find.ini
09/10/2013  11:48 PM                 0 freecommander.ini
               3 File(s)            449 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
              34 File(s)      5,776,022 bytes

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Re: Clipboard not working

#13 Post by Marek » 11.09.2013, 21:28

I do not know, why it does not work for you.
Have you tried on other PC?

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Re: Clipboard not working

#14 Post by mr » 24.09.2013, 18:54

Clipboard is still not working on my setup either.
freecommander_xe_portable633. Win7 X64 Pro.
I can confirm that text can be copied (ie a filename) but not pasted in FC (ie to rename a file), but the copied text can be pasted into other apps.

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Re: Clipboard not working

#15 Post by mr » 16.11.2013, 19:59

I have tracked this down a bit further. It has to do with Windows *sometimes* formatting the clipboard to other than plain text.
For example, sometimes I can paste copied text into Thunderbird, other times it will only paste if I use "Paste Without Formatting". Sometimes "Paste Without Formatting" is not necessary - even when copying from the same application - it seems to depend on what has been copied.
I am always able to paste into EditPlus. Copying back from EditPlus (and presumably any text editor worth its salt) seems to convert back to plain text.
However, under no circumstances am I able to paste into FreeCommander when renaming a file. Perhaps you could look into a paste-as-plain-text option?
Thanks.

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