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Copy and Paste Bug

Community Beginner ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Suddenly I cannot copy and paste from Illustrator to other apps (including Photoshop).

Pasting as a smart object in photoshop results in an empty smart object.

The clipboard is empty.

I tried with some squares and shapes and it works, but with more complex stuff it doesn't (and with stuff I used to copy & paste without issues before).

 

I tried emptying cache, deleting preferences, uninstalling and installing Illustrator again and still not working.

I even rolled back to the previous version without any luck.

 

I'm currently running 26.4.1 on my M1 Macbook Pro

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Community Beginner , Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

Ok, I found a solution.

 

Selecting all the artboards, copy & paste on a new document solves the issue. It appear to be the .ai file(s) damaged (plural since they were more than one with the same problem).

Now it works.
Really strange behavior

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Adobe Employee ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Hello @Leo Hans,

 

Sorry to hear about this experience. Kindly confirm if the issue persists with other files. Also, does pasting as Layers help resolve the problem?

 

Looking forward to your response.

 

Thanks,

Anubhav 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Hi. Not at all. Just started today.
It appears to be happening with the files I've have been working today. But even then, objects that were created before in the same file are able to copy and paste without issues.

 

This is really unfortunate while working

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Ok, I found a solution.

 

Selecting all the artboards, copy & paste on a new document solves the issue. It appear to be the .ai file(s) damaged (plural since they were more than one with the same problem).

Now it works.
Really strange behavior

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Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Do you have anything installed in the system that "enhances" the clipboard?

 

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022

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Yes, Unclutter. But no. that's not the issue for two reasons:
1) It hasn't been updated, so nothing changed.

2) I've already tried closing Unclutter just in case.

BTW googleing about this it appears to be not the first time Illustrator got this kind of behaviour.

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023

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I have found that if I have Outlook open it stops me cutting and pasting in Illustrator.

The only way round I have found is to close Outlook while working in Illustrator.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 26, 2023 Jul 26, 2023

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Thank you so much!!! This is exactly what I need to solve the problem. :hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points::hundred_points:

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 02, 2023 Dec 02, 2023

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This happens on almost every document I work on. So in the middle of a job I am supposed to work around by coping the entire contents into a new document? @Adobe please fix this!

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Dec 02, 2023 Dec 02, 2023

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Search for the third party application that interferes with your clipboard.  Might be one of these:

 

  • Parallels Toolbox running with the Clipboard History
  • TeamVewer Clipboard > Use Shared Clipboard
  • Apple iOS device simulator from Xcode
  • Windows Multi-clipboard
  • Windows Clipboard History
  • Chrome Remote Desktop
  • Mouse Pointer Highlighter
  • AnyViewer
  • Pastebot app
  • Overzealous antivirus (Digital Guardian) as well as viruses that empty the clipboard
  • Vector Magic

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