Not sure when this began, but recently I became unable to ctrl-c ctrl-v file names and folder names in DOpus 10. The toolbar icons for copy and paste don't work either. These keyboard shortcuts work fine in all other programs (e.g. Word, Illustrator, ect.).
I'm running Windows 7 64bit Ultimate and DOpus 10 latest version.
Help!
Steven
If you don't have any changes to your toolbars that you need to keep, try resetting them to the defaults. To do that, right-click the empty space on one of the toolbars, then select the Toolbars sub-menu. You should see a list of toolbars, and at the bottom an option for resetting all your toolbars to the default.
(You can also reset individual toolbars via the similar item at the top level of that menu.)
If you have edited your toolbars and want to keep the changes, see what commands the Copy and Paste items run currently. The defaults are Clipboard COPY and Clipboard PASTE
I tried this. No change. I had also checked to see if the keyboard / toolbar icon keyboard settings had changed. They were still ctrl-c & ctrl-v.
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When you say you're trying to copy file/folder names, do you mean copy their actual names (e.g. for pasting into a text file)?
Or do you mean you are trying to copy and paste files/folders between different folders?
If I double click on a folder name and want to cut & paste this name into the "make new folder" dialogue box, the computer dings and then does nothing. Smae thing when I double click part of a file name then try to paste it into another file name. I used to do this all the time.
So you're renaming the file (by clicking on it to select it, then clicking it again; the same as if you push F2 on a file), then pushing Ctrl-C to copy part of the file's name to the clipboard? In that case the toolbars don't matter (at least as long as you haven't floated them or made global hotkeys that override ctrl-c/ctrl-v); it's down to the standard Windows edit-box behaviour instead.
What happens if you copy part of the name and then paste it into Notepad or another text editor?
What if you copy text from a Notepad or another text editor and try to paste that into the Create Folder dialog in Opus?
i.e. Is the problem with copying from Opus, pasting into Opus, or both?
Have you got any clipboard monitor/history tools running?
Or things which change the meaning of keys depending on which program is active (e.g. Autohotkey or AutoIt)?
Or has the keyboard input language/locale been changed, either for the machine as a whole or for Opus as a process? (That's usually done using the language bar that appears if you have more than one keymap enabled.)
What happens if you copy part of the name and then paste it into Notepad or another text editor?
**-- This works fine. I ctrl-c 'd a filename to MS Word 2007.
What if you copy text from a Notepad or another text editor and try to paste that into the Create Folder dialog in Opus?
**-- This fails. However, if I then try to paste what's in the clipboard (what I tried to paste into the new folder dialogue) into a different work doc, this works fine. So the text must be making it into the clipboard, and this text can be pasted elsewhere.
Have you got any clipboard monitor/history tools running?
**-- I do have snagit running in the background. So after exiting it, I then tried the tests again. No luck. It still refuses to ctrl-v the text into the dialogue box.
Or things which change the meaning of keys depending on which program is active (e.g. Autohotkey or AutoIt)?
**-- No, nothing.
Or has the keyboard input language/locale been changed, either for the machine as a whole or for Opus as a process? (That's usually done using the language bar that appears if you have more than one keymap enabled.)
**-- Again, no.
What's so puzzling is that all other cut and pastes (in all other programs) work fine.
So I guess it's now narrowed down to only DOpus'sthe ctrl-v paste function.
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P.S. Thanks so much for the support.
Hmm, what happens if you right-click the edit-box and choose Paste?
When you paste into another program, is what comes out all legal filename characters, and without any extra blank spaces or extra lines/returns at the start or end?
Hmm, what happens if you right-click the edit-box and choose Paste?
**-- If I paste a file name into word this way, it's fine. But If I try to put it into the new folder dialogue, it fails.
When I paste elsewhere, all is fine. No extra chars. No extra spaces. Indeed, I'm cutting and pasting in these messages I'm pasting. Ctrl-c, ctrl-v both work fine.
Is it possible a DOpus file got corrupted. I did recently update tp 10.1.0.0.4570 x64.
If you copy some text to the clipboard, and then try to paste that into a Lister to create a new text file, does that work? It should make a new text file called Clipboard Text.txt.
(copy the text, then right click on the background - not on a file - and choose Paste. See below for a screenshot).
Also, in your original post you say "The toolbar icons for copy and paste don't work either" - I was just wondering if you could clarify exactly which toolbar icons you mean?
If you copy some text to the clipboard, and then try to paste that into a Lister to create a new text file, does that work? It should make a new text file called Clipboard Text.txt.
(copy the text, then right click on the background - not on a file - and choose Paste. See below for a screenshot).
**-- No. Nothing at all happens. But if I then paste this text into a new word doc, it pastes fine. Thus the test is indeed in the clipboard. Also, if I ctrl-drag a file to the background, Opus does make a copy of this file. And this same thing happens if I use the copy and paste from the edit menu. The file is duplicated. However, when I try to do this with the filename istelf, this does not work.
In other words, say I want to add the same text to 5 filenames. If I copy this text to the clipboard, then double click on a filename then highlight only the name portion of this filename (not the extension part), when I use the edit menu paste, no text gets inserted.
Also, in your original post you say "The toolbar icons for copy and paste don't work either" - I was just wondering if you could clarify exactly which toolbar icons you mean?
**-- I was talking about the edit menu. Sorry for the confusion.
Try disabling any anti-virus/anti-spyware software you're running and see if that makes a difference.
It's never would have worked that way anyway... the Edit Menu Copy and Paste buttons don't paste 'text' into filenames whlie you've got a file in inline rename... if you have text in the clipboard and hit the 'Paste' button on the Edit menu, you would/should end up with a Clipboard Text.txt file being created in the current folder, like Jon mentioned would happen using the right-click->Paste method above.
Still sounds like theres a problem(s) of course - but that particular scenario isn't one of them...
If you open notepad and type just a few characters into the empty file (non-special chars... say A, B, C), and then (slow) double-click a file in Opus to enter inline rename mode, does pasting that do ~nothing as well? Doing this does cause Opus to make the 'Ding' sound though you say?
Thank you to all who offered help. This forum is truly a cut above. Being I've been fixing computers since 1983, I should have known better. A reinstall fixed whatever was broken. And despite the previous post, I can now, as always, double click a file name and then cut and paste text in and out of it.
Thanks again.