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December 21, 2011
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There was an error while copying to the Clipboard. An internal error occurred.

  • December 21, 2011
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Well, this question has been on for a long time but everyone seems to ignore it, so I'll just give it another shot.
I get this error when trying to copy something.

Most of the time, if i ignore the error I can still find it in the clipboard.

Sometimes I'm lucky and it doesn't happen (using the same document), so this clears that it has no copyright protection.

Yesterday I worked all day on a document with no problems, but today I'm losing a lot of time dealing with the problem and trying to fix it. (hope this clears that I have all software up to date and no plugins missing)

The thing is that I often work on asian character texts and ignoring the error does no good because all I have left in the clipboard is junk data (an example of copied text: ‘¾—zŒõ”­“dƒVƒXƒeƒ€‚ÌLCA)

If I try to copy again, sometimes it works (I have to try from 3 up to more than 15 times though), but I will get the error when I try copying the next word.
I really doubt there's an instant solution for this, so all I'm asking is for you to stop ignoring this issue and try to release an update with a fix for this before people start switching to other programs.
Pretty please??
Thank you

P.S.

As you can see, no answer

since 2008

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1171929#1171929

up to 2011
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4064251#4064251

    Correct answer Tuan16

    After I uninstall Viber on my PC, the problem is solved. Hope it helps.

    28 replies

    New Participant
    December 23, 2024

    This solution worked for me as well:

    With the pdf file open, go to Edit on the top left bar. Go to Preferences. On the left side, go to Security (Enhanced) 

    then under the Sandbox Protections,  uncheck the 1st check box "Enable protected mode at start up (Preview)". Click okay.  

    New Participant
    August 28, 2024

    Below was a post saying they disabled the skype add on.  I tried this fix, and bingo!!  Problem solved.  

    New Participant
    August 27, 2024

    27 Aug 2024 - I have this same problem.  Just started out of the blue.  Tried a some of the suggestion here, but  not working.  I  need to be able to C&P amounts when paying our contractors to minamise errors.  Adobe, please respond and help us to get to the bottom of this issue.

    Tuan16Correct answer
    New Participant
    March 24, 2024

    After I uninstall Viber on my PC, the problem is solved. Hope it helps.

    New Participant
    October 23, 2023

    Have this same issue. Have tried literally every single suggestion given and nothing works.

    Known Participant
    September 25, 2023

    I closed out several programs and websites that I had opened.  No luck.

    Then closed the pdf I was working on and re-opened it.  

    No error message.  Copied and pasted fine.

    Participating Frequently
    February 22, 2023

    Well in my case. When i start to create a new file and copy the clip board to made a image Coc Base. It will also show me same clip board error. I thinks a lot but and tried to solve this but i can't. But i don't give up still i finding the the solution.

    New Participant
    November 21, 2022

    Clipboard Error: internal problem occured.

    The solution that worked for me is this:

    With the pdf file open. Go to Edit on the top left  bar. Go to Preferences. On the left side, go to Security (Enhanced) 

    then under the Sandbox Protections,  uncheck the 1st check box "Enable protected mode at start up (Preview)"

    Then click okay.  

    This worked for me. I have no idea how the checkbox got checked. But it made every .pdf file unable to copy and paste to another file or program.  

     

    New Participant
    October 26, 2020

    close the program and reopen it again the problem will disappear 

    New Participant
    November 21, 2022

    Doesn't work for me.

     

    New Participant
    May 6, 2020

    Thanks - that worked!  That was bugging me, too.  My repair option said "Repair Acrobat installation", so that works also.  I have Acrobat X Professional.