Basic copy functionality borked in color picker

Question

You know, its like the most basic thing a computer can do, "copy data" and yet somehow this app manages to screw that up.

In the color picker, in the hex color code box, you cannot right click the highlighed color code and choose copy from the context menu as it does not acutally do the copy. This is 100% repeatble.

It appears the text is deslected when the context menu opens up. You press copy, but since nothing is selected, nothing is copied. The best part is that after that, it closes the context menu and restores the selected text.

The work around is to just use CTRL+C instead of opening the right click menu.

The problem is, sometimes computers can't be trusted to copy on the CTRL+C hotkey (at random) so I often just do the context bit to not have to deal with the annoynce of the thing I copied not being copied. How funny that the my "fool proof" method was some how fooled by XD.

creative explorer · Answer

@RickKukiela Honestly, I think you need to clear your preferences. Corrupted preference files can sometimes lead to unexpected behavior within applications. By deleting these files, you're essentially forcing XD to rebuild them with their default settings, which can resolve glitches or conflicts that might be interfering with standard operations like copying.
Once you delete the preferences for XD and then Restart Adobe XD it will automactically create new preferences. Think of it as a reset to the application preferences.

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