Just lettin' ya know...

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?

Not running any plugins aside from the stock photoshop ones.

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

I have the same problem. When I disable OpenGL Drawing (Edit - Preference - un check Enable OpenGL Drawing) I can copy & paste normaly

I tried all the solutions in this thread.  The only one that works consistently is removing the NIK plugins entirely.  I bundled all the NIK plugins in the plugin subdirectory into one subdirectory named "NIK".  When I need to use the clipboard I simply move the "NIK" directory out of the photoshop plugin directory.  I moved all the non photoshop plug ins including "NIK" into the auxiliary plugin directory. 

I haven't gone so far as to try to identify which of the NIK modules have the problem.  I'll probably leave that up to the NIK folk.

Guy

Yes, I downloaded and installed all the latest updates.  NIK claims it isn't their problem.  I have a lot of plugins:

Digimarc

EPP_Pro

FocalPoint 2.0.plugin

FocusMagic.plugin

OnOne

Panels

Photomatix

Topaz

NIK isn't in right now because I need to use the clipboard.

I don't want to go back and undo all the registry fixes I made but that might show some interaction with the clipboard.  Right now I am happy I have a solution that works consistently and is repeatable.

Guy

No, more like that's a clue hat there is a bug. The rest is circumstantial. Seems to me, anyway. However, the impetus lies with Nik, as they want their software to operate as a plug-in to Photoshop. The clash my very well be unavoidable.

Correct me if I am in error, but Nik's software will function without Photoshop, so it may be a case of unfortunate circumstances.

I would hate to be a judge having to decide who's at fault. Sounds like a messy divorce case. Maybe the two should never have gotten together in the first place!

Maybe we need to get past the idea of a "bug". Just where is that critter and where did it take up residence?

GuyJr wrote:

 

At first I thought the problem was with how Adobe wrote the plug-in interface specification.

In a certain sense, this actually could be considered part of the root cause...

What I mean by that is that Photoshop allows plug-ins to run in its address space.  Basically, at its core a plug-in is just a subprogram that Photoshop calls.  This is powerful.  But with great power comes great responsibility not to screw up the parent environment!

I think a lot of problems come from the observation that plug-in writers always seem to want to do more than they're allowed to do within the plug-in SDK, by tinkering with that host environment...  Things like put their own menus up, open new panels, and a whole host of other things they think will differentiate their product from the crowd.

-Noel

Hudechrome wrote:

 

It's also interesting that reindeer graphics has plug-ins for PS, but they show up under a different Menu than the others do. They have never been a problem.

Where do they show up, exactly?

Different types of plug-ins do go in different places...  For example, Automation plug-ins go in the File - Automate menu.  Filter plug-ins - the ones we most often think of - of course go in the FIlter menu. Submenus are sanctioned.

-Noel

Same problem... tried the registry approach, but not still not working.

PS CS 5.1 x64 doesn'y like the clipboard.

Yes, that's exactly my case, I have the latest Nik plugins installed.

I am having the same problem in CS5.5. Except I am trying to save a layer so that i can place it into a new file. My paste option is not functionsing at all, whether by shortcut, right click or edit toolbar.

It seems that this question is yet unanswered... I have/had the same problem in Photoshop 64 bit on Windows 7, and even though the issue is still there, I'd like to share a weird workaround that works for me. I simply hold down PrntScr (print screen) and then press Alt. Note, you mustn't release PrntScr until you see the "hourglass"-symbol popping up. You usually use the Alt-button when you want to do a printscreen of a portion of the screen, but that won't work if you for instance are inside Photoshop, for exampel creating a tutorial, and want the selected menu to be printscreened as well. But, if you do it the other way around, PrntScr+Alt, it somehow clears the print screen cache. This works every time for me, hopefully it can help someone else!

/Helena

Did you add them together or did you install one check, uninstall that one install the next etc? It's important to know if it is cumulative or  individual.

I know it's tedious but it might me even more informative to install each app separately, and then also reverse the buildup. Install Color Efex first.

Registered just to give my 2 cents.

Landed here in search for a solution for this problem and it seemed to be plugin-caused. I started to uninstalling what I have..

It ended up being the xNormal and its PS plugin. After uninstalled, my clipboard issues were gone. So if anyone who reads this has xNormal installed, it's worth a shot to uninstall it and see if it solved.

I don't see anything like you describe. Holding down Alt or not makes no difference, nor do I see an hourglass. But then, I don't see these problems either.

I have a screen shot program that interferes with the key combination you recommend. However, when I unload that program from memory and press the your key combination, I get a screen shot of the whole screen. But then, if I copy anything else to the clipboard, PhotoShop behaves as it should. So your method works for me if I disable my own screen print program and if I take a screen shot first of the whole screen. Then...perfect.

Thanks for this idea.

-wick

Hi, Just trying to add a little more of my findings with this problem  2 days ago I upgraded my pc to an AMD phenom X3, 4GB RAM, new install of Windows 7 64bit and Photoshop CS5 32/64 bit default plugins etc.. I updated drivers etc... yet I have the copy/paste problem I tried all workarounds and patches and no avail I even tried installing CS6 and still same problem..

Buuut! I noticed I only have this problem when I open existing PSD I have in my drive, which I created in my previouse machine with PS CS5 in Windows XP.

What I want to do is open an existing psd so as to copy a clip and later paste into another project but I can´t the copy/paste options in edit are grayed out.

I can drag and drop into another project within PS on a new tab but copy/paste are disabled.  However on a new project in another TAB copy and paste works fine as long as I don´t use any clip previously created in XP!!!!!

Well hopefully I shed some bit of info for someone and I will wait and see if a solution is found...