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mataodre
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January 8, 2014
Question

Purge Clipboard in CC?

  • January 8, 2014
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Hi there! I was wondering if there is a method to purge the clipboard in Illustrator CC other than completely exiting and restarting the program.  Apparently there was a "Purge" option under the edit menu in previous incarnations, but have no such option in CC.  It would be extremely helpful if anyone could give me a tip! Thanks!

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    oscars98838529
    Participant
    January 30, 2018

    To add to this same "dilemma" - I am also looking for a solution to placing images.

    Example:

    If you are placing 1 or several images into any InDesign document and once you have them on your clipboard and decide to place them somewhere you suddenly realize they are not the correct ones; Indesign will still keep the first few (wrong images at this point) at the front of your clip board for placement - even after finding the correct ones.

    This is where you would need a real purge or if InDesign could not do that, it would be great!

    rcraighead
    rcraighead
    Legend
    January 8, 2014

    Copy something very small, to the clipboard.

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    mataodreAuthor
    Participant
    January 9, 2014

    That's not really a solution to my problem. If I wanted to only be able to copy small files back and forth between say photoshop and illustrator, or from one illustrator doc to another, than sure I wouldn't have this problem with my temp cache bloating.  I know from reading older forum threads that there used to be an option under the "edit" menu to "purge" the clipboard while the program was still running.  Is that function eliminated now in CC? If not how do I do this in CC?

      rcraighead
      rcraighead
      Legend
      January 9, 2014

      Why is it not a solution? If you copy a small item into the clipboard, it deletes everything else from the clipboard (purges it).

      In CS5 I choose to not save the clipboard on quit, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

      In CS5 there is Edit>Clear, but that just bypasses the clipboard when deleting something.

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