That's great news!  Enjoy it while it works.

One caution though:  An old software developer's adage:  If a problem seems to go away for no reason, it will usually come back by itself.

I hope your situation proves this adage wrong.

-Noel

I'm having the same problem on 64-bit Win7. No plug-ins installed, tried the registry hack -- no luck. However, the type of seleciton makes a difference.

• If I simply select a layer (bounding box appears with handles) and click the Edit menu, the Copy commands are disabled
• If I make a selection within the layer (marching ants appear) the Copy commands are enabled
• If I CTRL+Click the thumbnail in the Layers panel (marching ants appear) the Copy commands are enabled

Is anyone else noticing these different behaviors? This issue basically renders Photoshop unusable for serious production work, and it's clear this issue is affecting a large number of users. Adobe needs to get on this issue. 

Doh, you're right. I'm confusing my frustration with the intermittent system clipboard, and been using Fireworks too much recently.

CTRL+A selects all, but to copy a layer press CTRL+J or click Layer > New > Layer via Copy.

Also note that the issue appears even without any extra Photoshop plugins or out-of-the-ordinary programs installed; my clipboard issues existed on a completely clean install. I only had PS+BridgeCS5, 3dsmax2011, Autocad2011, Lotus Notes and MS Office installed. Clipboarding between the other applications worked flawlessly. Sure, Notes is a possible culprit... it's a weird piece of software. But what makes CS5 clipboard access different from that of the other applications?

Hope you solve it til CS6.

Adobe Team: READ THIS!

Even if I remove all plug-ins from the Plug-ins folder, the problem is still there.

Removing the Plug-ins folder solves the problem. So I guessed that this is

something Photoshop is doing, and after a lot of trial and error, I found this:

If I change the Permissions for CREATOR OWNER on the Plug-ins forlder

to DENY, the problem goes away. But, I do not know if this makes any

problems for any of the plug-ins. So I have tried to find out which entrys that

has to be denied to minimize any side-effects. I found that changing any of

the ones mentiond below, will create a error message whe applied.

This solution also removes the problem with not being able to do more

than one COPY - PASTE or making several PrintScreens without restarting Photoshop.

How to do this:

Right-click on Plug-ins folder (Make shure you are in the 64bit folder)

Choose Properties

Go to the Security tab

Click on CREATOR OWNER

Click on Advanced

Click on CREATOR OWNER ( Inherited from C:\Program Files\ )

Click on Change Permissions

Click on CREATOR OWNER ( Inherited from C:\Program Files\ )

Click on Edit...

In Permissions, tick the "Deny"-box for these entry`s:

List folder / read data

Read attributes

Read extended attributes

Create files / read data
Create forlders / append data
Write attributes

Allow the rest in the list.

Click OK

There should now be a new Permission entry at the top saying Deny

for CREATOR OWNER ( <not inherited> )

Click OK on the to next windows and you are done.

Start Photoshop and be happy until you find out that something is wrong, and post it here.

I guess that it would be enough to tick only one of the boxes to make this problem go away,

but I`ll leave that to others to find out...

I tried to edit my post, but have no permission??...

Yes ofcoarse I`m shure! I have been testing this all day ant tried to find

out which permissions to Allow/Deny. If you give me permission to

post mor pics, Ill show you the whole prosess.

- Copy/Paste works fine with the solution I presented in my last post.

- Any other settings that allows any of the settings I have listed to be

- denied, will result in a error message.

And so on.. no need to write it all over agein..

I can duplicate Eagleizer's solution. The clipboard on my computer does work after the changes listed.  However....

All of my add on Filters, except Topaz, disappeared from the interface

And

the Delete key no longer worked.

Filters that disappeared after the permission change included; Digimarc; Nik Vivieza 2, HDR Effex Pro; and Imagenomic (all 3).

Note: My Topaz filters are not in a seperate folder in the Plug-ins folder but are shortcuts.

Win7 x64, PS CS5 x64

The problem no longer exist when I disable Nik HDR Effex Pro. I have downloaded the latest version and tried Nik's solution listed in post 85.

Hi there. I am really late to this thread, and it's quite a confusing one. I am not sure what's up or down.

Regardless, I just wanted to say that I am having the awful clipboard problem. It really kneecaps my productivity.

I am running Windows 7 Professional x64, with CS5 32bit at the moment. I have no 3rd party plugins.

If I can be of any help at all in solving this problem, I will gladly pitch in.

Cheers!

Hi there,

Even though I am running the 32bit version, I tried Yves solution and it worked.

In Windows Explorer I renamed the Plug-ins folder to Plug-ins_ just to change it. I launched PS and copy and paste worked perfectly. I quit PS, renamed the folder back and launched PS again. Copy and paste worked perfectly.

It's weird I know, but it worked.

Cheers,

Keith

I don't have any 3rd party plug-ins installed. All the normal stock plug-ins work fine.

Keith

In my work I take tons of screenshots each day, pasting them into PS for all kinds of purposes. Having to close and re-open PS all day long has been a drag.

After several months of working correctly, I now have the clipboard problem again.

The first clip will paste and never again.

I have no new plugins.

I tried the rename, rename Plugins folder to no avail.

Just to be absolutely sure...  Find the Nik plug-in itself, and rename it by putting a tilde (~) in front of the name to disable it.  Make sure the problem follows just the presence/absence of that plug-in.

Assuming that specific plug-in is at fault, It seems pretty clear, then... You need to contact Nik and demand an updated version to fix this problem.

-Noel

Hi Noel. Being a software developer and architect for over 20 years, I would be one of the first to say that renaming the plug-ins folder and changing it back wouldn't do anything.

But, it did.

I have no freaking idea why it worked, but it did. I can ALT+PRT SCRN all day long and Photoshop works perfectly now. Before it was a productivity nightmare.

Cheers...

You and I seem to share the same background, Keith.  I wasn't disputing that you saw what you saw; I believe you.

And if you're like me, you HATE it when the computer does something you can't explain.

I can only guess that starting Photoshop without the offending plug-in present (or some other coincidental factor that occurred when you did that) caused a setting to be changed, where it would not have done that (for some reason) as long as the plug-in was present.  It's also just hard to imagine such a setting, that would unclog the clipboard.  Lots of stuff that seems unlikely all together in one theory.

Unfortunately your particular sequence doesn't seem to be working for all others.

-Noel

It does!

Thanks!

Alan