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Photoshop CS5 Clipboard Issue (Win 7)

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September 8, 2010
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I have a copy of PS CS5 installed and i can only paste an image that i copied from before the program was started. When Ps is already started and I copy an image and try to paste it in PS it will paste the image I copied before I started the program not the one I just copied...

It's a pretty annoying situation... not being able to copy and paste once the program is running. I have to shut it down, start it up again to paste the image I want...

Anybody a solution?

I work on: Win 7 ultimate 64 bit - i7 - 8 gigs ram

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Correct answer studio aquarel

Jonathon P wrote:

I added the entry as a new 64-bit Q-Word value.

You'd need confirmation from Adobe to be sure, but a quad word value is probably not the right choice. I assume you did this because Photoshop is 64 bit, but it's not likely the Adobe programmers changed the registry access function (if it still exists) to use a quad word instead of a double word just because they're compiling for 64 bits. The size of registry access functions is not normally tied to the natural integer size; you have to specifically code them to a particular data type.

Honestly, I've never tried reading a quad word from the registry with a double word access; since the Intel processor is little-endian it may well work out to the same thing.

-Noel

i had exactly the same issue with clipboard in PS CS5 described by David Dobish above. I solved it by removing Selective Tool (64 bit) Pluging from NIK SOFTWARE. Now clipboard works fine.

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GuyJr

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Many thanks to all the posts above. I tried all of them. Photoshop CS5 32 bit does not have the problem. I never noticed that because I always use 64 bit.

The only solution that restored the paste function was to completely remove the NIK presets folder from the "Adobe Photoshop CS5 (64 Bit)/Plug-ins" folder.

NIK has a problem with their 64 bit support!

Hope this helps.

Guy

genoism

Participant

I dont have any NIK presets folder and i get this issue. Its really freaking annoying.

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Keith25

Participating Frequently

This whole clipboard issue is a huge CF. I don't use any plugins and have the same problems. I have resolved myself to the fact that Adobe will probably never fix it. Mostly because they want to point the blame somewhere else - even though that every app on my system works with the clipboard perfectly and consistently.

::face palm::

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fcastro75

Inspiring

Hi everyone, I am experiencing the same exact bug.

Pasting from the clipboard stops working after a certain time. I am also running Windows 7 64bit, Photoshop 64bit, and have 8 GIGs of ram installed. My pasting from the clipboard stops working after a few hours of designing. Pasting in from illustrator, screen caps etc. Obvisouly this issue is with photoshop and or memory. When the pasting from the clipboard stops working I can't even paste in text into photoshop! Even if I clear the clipboard and all history within photoshop.

Ironically, whatever I have I can still paste in Illustrator CS5. So how could it be a windows clipboard issue? Wondering if this is an obscure bug or what?

acresofgreen

Inspiring

fcastro75 wrote:
Hi everyone, I am experiencing the same exact bug.

Have you tried removing any plug-ins you might have installed?

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fcastro75

Inspiring

Not running any plugins aside from the stock photoshop ones.

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Mazeme

Participant

Well, I figured it out (for me at least).

Thanks to Interceptor_One! He gave me the hint.

I had NIK Color Effex Pro installed, uninstalled it -> Copy + Paste etc. works fine.

Actually I think NIK Software is buggy as hell

Greez,

Mazeme

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noscreenname4me

Participating Frequently

Why don't you try having PS open first and then copying and pasting? Too, it might be a coding conflict between Adobe and not all websites, just some. But, the fact that it only happens to me using Adobe, and an Adobe program that is NOT PhotoShop, points directly to Adobe as the problem. But,as I say, some people simply cannot even consider that Adobe itself might be the culprit. Bizarre behavior. I think there is a psychology study in there somewhere!

Hudechrome

Known Participant

How do you know I don't? Methinks there is a psychological study here.

FYI, I have approached it from many different points of view. In general PS is almost always open and minimized. So I tried it from the minimized condition. I have closed it, reopened it and tried it, I have rebooted and tried it. PS open, copy and paste. PS closed, copy, open PS and paste. I have -0- problems here.

I'm running Win7 64 Ultimate. I haven't tried it in XP but I can. In any case, doing a copy and paste from the web to PS has been a common practice for eons for me, with nary a problem.

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Anonymous

We understand that you haven't seen the problem Hudechrome -- I don't think it's necessary for you to tell us all the different ways you haven't seen the problem.

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noscreenname4me

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And frankly, as I have read through the replies to this issue, it seems that for some odd, incomprehensible reason there are posters on here that seem incapablre of even considering, much less accepting, that maybe Adobe and its programs are the problem adn creating this problem, not other programs, hardware or other things that are creating conflicts with Adobe. When all other programs work fine together and the problem only occcurs with Adobe, it seems pretty intuitive and LOGICAL that the problem is within ADOBE, not anywhere else.

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noscreenname4me

Participating Frequently

Just to let folks know, these clipboard issues are NOT only related to PhotoShop. I have similar problems with the old Adobe PhotoDeluxe program. No other photo editing program I have -- and I have numerous -- has a clipboard issue. Only Adobe. It seems is some type of systemic issue with Adobe, maybe a programming / code conflict with programs, something that has continued for years. Also, you can copy a .jpg from some site and paste it to all other editing program, but not into Adobe. The clipboard error comes up. However, if you then copy the .jpg from that photo editing program, it will paste into Adobe without the clipboard issue.

Hudechrome

Known Participant

Well, I consistently copy images from the web, open PS, make a canvas, hit Ctrl-V and the image drops in.

A systemic code error would be consistent and affect all the apps, not a select few.

IMO, anyway.

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luxuria111

Participating Frequently

My computer was just completely rebuilt. It's very vanilla win7. The problem persists.

And the biggest irritant is that Adobe continues to say it's a Windows bug. Yet, I can't copy paste into Paint, Office, really anywhere BUT Photoshop (and Illustrator.)

I've tried all the fixes everyone mentions. Anything that "works" just seems to behave differently for short periods of time.

I aree it's very annoying. And it makes me wish that Photoshop had some genuine competition...because I'd be so gone.

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vpham606

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Here is another tidbit of information. When the clipboard IS working, I can paste into an existing document as another layer with no problem. However, when going to File --> New --> and select the preset of “Clipboard”. CS5.1 generates the file with the size of the image that I’m pasting, but it is a blank layer or whatever the background contents setting. Another cntrl + v is required to actually bring the image on this layer. This may not belong in this thread, but I just wanted everyone to see the anomaly.

Hudechrome

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That's not an anomaly. That's SOP as far back as I remember.

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vpham606

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I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. Photoshop CS5.1 (new installation). I'm having the same issue with pasting from Clipboard. I can not determine how long I'm in the program before the clipboard no longer works. This issue has come up several times for me and the only solution at the time was to close the application and restart it. When it fails, pasting (cntrl + v) no longer works, nor going to file --> new --> preset would show "custom" and the clipboard option is grayed out. I've looked through all the threads (5 pages) and only found one solution that works. That is: click Edit --> Purge --> All. I've checked the registry as mentioned in previous thread, the key was already there. I'm including a screen print of that as well. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

P.S. No plug-ins are installed

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vpham606

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I was able to identify the culprit this morning and have a work around solution. I have Microsoft Office 2010, 64-bit installed on my PC. If someone sends me an earlier version (2003) and I have it opened, my clipboard no longer works inside Photoshop (greyed out). If save the open document (excel, powerpoint, word, etc) to 2010 version, then my clipboard options are available again. This may not be a solution for everyone, but this fixed my issues.

Hudechrome

Known Participant

My clipboard is never greyed out. That sounds like a different problem?

For me, pasting will just keep pasting the last thing over and over. So, IOW, copying something new won't paste into Photoshop, but it will continue to paste the appropriate thing into non-Adobe apps.

I tried it again. I copied the pix in post 205. Photoshop is open. I hit File>New, then Ctrl-V. It pasted correctly.

So I exited PS. copied the pix Noel posted, opened PS, File>New ctrl-V and Noel's image posted.

What gives?

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Yves Horsmans

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Hi Everyone,

A while a go I proposed the Plugin Folder renaming myself and that worked for me at the time. But since there are several plugins I need, I went on renaming all plugin sub folders seperately (on a vanilla install), but there wasn't one that could be pinpointed causing the hassle with the clip board. So my problem still remained.

Machine & Software Specs

- Asus Notebook N73SV

- NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

- 12 GB RAM

- Solid State Hard Drive 64 GB with Adobe PhotoShop CS5.1 install (as a part of the Web Premium Suite)

- Mechanical HDD 640 GB

- Windows 7 64 bit

- PhotoShop CS5.1 64 bit

- No other plugins then included in a clean install

- All Windows updates

- All Adobe updates

So recently I found a solution here http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/adobe-photoshop-clipboard-copypaste-bug-fix/ , where I needed to make some modifications, since the solution was for another version of PhotoShop. I've been using PhotoShop intensively the last 14 days, without having the clipboard problem once.

Here are the modified steps for Windows 7 64 bit with PhotoShop CS5.1 64 bit (modifications are marked in bold)

In Windows, go to Start and then Run.
Type in “Regedit” without the quotes
Once in the registry editor, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Adobe > Photoshop > 55.0
Right-click on the 55.0 folder and select New > DWORD (32 bit) Value and name it “AlwaysImportClipboard64” without the quotes
Double click the name and change the Value Data field from 0 to 1 and leave the radiobutton on Hexadecimal
You're entry in the table should look like below when you're done

Name
AlwaysImportClipboard64

Type
REG_DWORD

Data
0x00000001 (1)
When you restart PhotoShop the clipboard issue should be gone
Make sure to read the disclaimer on http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/adobe-photoshop-clipboard-copypaste-bug-fix/ Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. We cannot guarantee that problems resulting from modifications to the registry can be solved. Use the information provided at your own risk.

Cheers,

Yves

Noel Carboni

Legend

It's nice of you to take the time to write this up, but you should know that Photoshop simply does not read the registry entry you suggest adding.

The only registry entry it reads that appears related is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop\55.0\AlwaysImportClipboard

I have personally confirmed this with ProcMon:

The attempted registry access of the AlwaysImportClipboard value (note: No "64" suffix) pictured above is the ONLY one in the 60,000 events for Photoshop.exe captured during startup that contains the word "Clipboard", even though as you can see I entered the value you suggested above.

If the application doesn't read the value you suggest adding from the registry, it can't make any decisions on it - it's as simple as that!

Even though you tested for two weeks, it must be coincidence - or something else you did - that got things working on your system.

A post like yours above, though written with good intentions, just sends other people off to do things that are not necessary, and wastes their time.

-Noel

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Yves Horsmans

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Dear Noel,

TnX a lot for your feedback and the test you ran. As you state it's not my intention to mislead people, nor waste their time. On the other hand. Since this problem is pretty old and no solid solution has been available so far, I reckon any occurance of a solution is worth a shot. The time people are losing on starting en restarting PhotoShop to activate their clipboard again is massive in comparison to this. As this is a forum, we are bundled forces where some of us have more in depth knowledge on the matter as others (myself not included). At this point I reckon any suggestion is welcome to point the ones with more knowledge on the matter into a direction. What else is the purpose of a forum. Won't you agree?

That being said. I can't recall coming up with this 64 suffix myself. At first I created an entry "AlwaysImportClipboard" as stated in the solution I found. But somehow this "64" suffix was added. I've just tried to reproduce this, by deleting the "AlwaysImportClipboard64" entry and create a new "AlwaysImportClipboard" entry. After restarting, it was not renamed to "AlwaysImportClipboard64", so I don't know where the suffix is coming from. For now I'll leave the entry to "AlwaysImportClipboard". As soon as the clipboard problem reoccurs or the 64 suffix reappears, I'll make sure to add a reply to my original post, to overrule it. Fair enough?

Cheers,

Yves

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