People are giving answers without having the info needed to give a good answer.ġ) How he is trying to do the cut and paste (only with the mouse or using the keyboard ('command+c' for copy and 'command+v' for paste) or both or using the menu items?Ģ) Is highlight the object to C+P the problem?ģ) What software is installed and running? (because the problem get's worse over time it sounds like a 'memory leak' from a program with a bug in it) My main suspect is the Windows apps I run via Crossover are messing with something in the system, even after killing Crossover and their processors.Įdit 22/6: I will post a process list and result from kextstat | grep -v com.apple once the issue arrises again.įirst sorry for the length of this post and for the spelling I am dyslexic. Still would like to figure out the underlying cause. It's almost as inconvenient as simply restarting, which was my old fix.

However, this is not particularly surprising.

I did find however that killing the WindowServer process, which esentially closes all windows and resets the GUI, does provide a bandaid 'fix' to the problem and bring copy&paste/drag&drop back. I'm on a 13' retina macbook pro running 10.9.Įdit 2: After trying a million fixes found on the internet (changing file permissions, /private/var fixes, disabling hidden files from showing etc, killing third-party processes one by one), none of it worked. Should I dump a process list here to show what i've got running or is there a common issue that could be the cause? Going in to Finder > Clipboard shows only one small piece of text which is the last thing I successfully copied before it completely stopped working. Not in textedit, chrome, safari, terminal or otherwise. First it's only between different apps such as Terminal and Sublime Text, but eventually it's system wide and stops working everywhere.Īs I type this, nothing seems to be copying to clipboard.

For several months now i've had an issue where after using my laptop for a couple of weeks without restarting, i'll slowly lose my ability to copy and paste.

My copy and paste is not working mac