Terminology

• Clip - is an object copied to the clipboard. Select a snippet of text, picture, sound, data, etc., and click Copy or Cut in the Edit menu, or use the hot-keys Command-C or Command-X to create a clip in the system Clipboard. With CopyPaste Pro installed, you can even use Drag and Drop to create and store a clip.
  
• Clipboard - is the container for one clip. Mac OS X provides one system Clipboard; CopyPaste Pro enhances Mac OS X by providing multiple Clipboards in a variety of Clip Sets.
• Clip Set - is a container for many clips. There are two sets so far, History and Archive.
• Clip History - is the shifting stack or chronology of clips copied/cut over time. Clips in the system Clipboard are automatically remembered in this clip set. 
• Clip Archive - is a static Clip Set. It is like a warehouse with a well-defined place for each clip. Select an item, then hold down the Command key (the key with a  symbol), type C and any number, letter or punctuation key to copy the selected item to that Archive. You can easily create new Clip Archives.
  
• Clip Views - five different ways to access, use and display clips.
• CopyPaste Menu - is the new menu item in the menubar. It gives you access to the Clip History, the Clip Archive and all other CopyPaste items.
• Clip Browser - is one horizontal window that shows all clips in the History and the Archive. Hold the Command key after an initial Command-V for a certain time, or hold Command and move the cursor to the left or right side of the screen to show the Clip Browser. 
• Clip Palettes (e.g. History Palette and Archive Palette) - are vertical windows that show all clips in the History or the Archive. Put the cursor over the floating clipboard icon, which is labeled with an A or H for Archive or History, to open either of these Clip Palettes. Use Drag and Drop to move clips within or between the Clip Palettes or your document.
  
• Clip Preview - the Clip Browser shows a preview image of each clip. The Clip Palettes show the clips in a table. A click on one of its lines opens a preview drawer with the preview image of the clip and several functions to work on it.
  
• Contextual Menu - was a quick and handy way to access all CopyPaste Pro functions in any program, by holding down the Control key and clicking. The Contextual Menu is no longer available in CopyPaste for any version due to changes in Mac OS 10.6.
• CopyPaste Tools - are functions that are used to act on clip data to create new data.
• Global Tools- tools to work on a selection in your document similar to the Application Services provided by the system. You find the menu with the CopyPaste Global Tools in the CopyPaste Menu and on the Clip Palettes.
• Local Tools- tools to work on individual clips. The menu to change data in clips is in the preview section of the Clip Palettes.
  
• Clip Editor - is a separate application called Bean, which has been built into CopyPaste Pro to allow the editing and saving of any clip. Bean is a full-featured, yet simple, word processor. Double-click a clip to open Bean and edit a clip.
  
• Archive Tools - tools to work exclusively on the entire archive clip set.
  
• History Tools - tools to work exclusively on the entire history clip set.
  

• ClickClip - copy and paste with one hand. When turned on in the Preferences, you can select something, hold the mouse down (for a time period that is set in the Preferences) to copy, then move the cursor elsewhere and hold the mouse down to paste. For some, this is a quicker way to copy and paste. 

Installation

2. The other visible items (also an option in the Preferences) are two new icons seen at the top right of your window. H opens the History Palette and A opens the Archive Palette. Scroll over one of the letters to pop up its associated palette. The icons can be dragged around quite easily with a click and drag. Their look and visibility can be adjusted in the CopyPaste Preferences. More details on these can be found here.

          Drag and Drop

Delete a Clip

To delete a Clip, you can use the trashcan icon on the preview drawer, or while the Clip Palette is open and the mouse is inside, you can hold the Control key to show a trashcan beside each clip, which allows you to delete a single clip.

To delete all Clips in the History or Archive, you can use the command "Delete all Clips" from the Archive Tools or History Tools right at the bottom of the Clip Palette.

Lock and Unlock a Clip

To protect a clip from being deleted or replaced with a newer copy (or to unlock a click that has been protected and "locked"), there are two options: 1) click the little "lock" icon  on the preview drawer; or 2) when the Control key is pressed, click on the "lock" icon  beside each clip.

Here is an image of the Archive Palette without the Control key being pressed:

Next is an image of the same Archive Palette while the Control key is being pressed. Notice how the  buttons and  buttons have been replaced with lock icons and trashcans:

Copy Button

At the bottom of both palettes is a button. On the History Palette, this button performs a normal copy, as if you hit Command-c. On the Archive Palette, however, this button performs a copy that puts the resulting clip into the first free slot of the current archive. This is the same as if you hit Command-c-c (double c).

Tools for Both Clip Palettes

Tools on the Archive Palette

The "Archive Tools" menu provides the following functions:

Paste all Clips in Archive

Paste all Clips in Reverse Order

Lock all Clips in Clip Archive

Unlock all Clips in Clip Archive

Delete all Clips in Archive

Reload Clip Archive from Disk

Tools on the History Palette

Paste all Clips in History

Paste all Clips in Reverse Order

Reload Clip History from Disk

Archive all Clips in History

Delete all Clips in History

Reverse the Order of Clips in History

Tools on the Preview Drawer

Everyone is familiar with the Mac's Application Switcher, which is accessed via the Command (Apple  symbol) + Tab keys, and looks like this:

The Clip Browser is similar and is accessed in two ways: 

1. By holding the Command key and moving the cursor all the way to the right or left edge of the screen (see Preferences for this). The right side of the screen shows you the Clip Archive, while the left side shows the Clip History. This requires both the keyboard and mouse, but it might be the fastest method.
2. Keyboard-only access:  use Command-V and continue to hold down the Command key (set the delay in the Preferences). Repeat the "v" key to select the next clip or use the "c" key to turn the Clip Browser to show the Clip Archive.

Draggable Clips

In the Clip Browser, click and drag to rearrange any clips. You can also drag a clip to your document if that works better than pasting.

Delete Clips

Though you can use the contextual menu to delete a clip, it is much faster to select the clip and hit Command-Delete. (Either step through the clips with the arrow or "v" key, or point to a clip with the mouse). The CopyPaste menu provides a menu command to delete all of the history at once. An entire Clip Archive can be deleted from the "Select Clip Archive" menu.

Contextual Menu for clips in the Clip Browser (no longer available as of Mac OS 10.6)
In the Clip Browser, either right-clicking (or Ctrl-Click) on a clip OR clicking and holding a selected clip for half a second opens the contextual menu where you will see these functions:

1. "Edit this Clip" opens the clip in the Editor. Closing the Editor window updates the clip.
2. "Paste Plain Text" forces a text clip to get pasted without style attributes. There is a preference option that turns this mode on all the time. If it is checked, this command is reverted to "Paste Text with Styles".

3. "Delete Clip".
4. This next item is slightly different in Archive and in History view of the Browser.
    On a History clip you get "Archive this Clip". This puts the clip into the Clip Archive and assigns a free hot-key to it (e.g., Command-v-f).
    On an Archive clip you get "Change Hot Key", which allows you to change the assigned hot-key for the clip in the Archive.
5. "Mail this Clip" puts the clip conveniently into a new mail document.
6. "Save Clip as File" smartly detects the file type to save.

Contextual Menu for the Clip Browser (picture up and to the right) (no longer available as of Mac OS 10.6)
Control clicking outside a clip gives you a set of menus which allows you to turn the browser to show the Clip Archive.

          Using the Clip Archive:       

Features

• a live word count
• a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
• a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
• an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
• date-stamped backups
• auto-saving
• a page layout mode
• an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
• an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
• selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
• a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
• easy to use menus
• remembers cursor position (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
• all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
• access to all of CopyPastes good stuff (clips, archives, tools, etc.)

File Formats

        Bean natively reads and writes these file formats:

• .rtf format (rich text)
• .rtfd format (rich text with graphics)
• .bean format (identical to .rtfd)
• .txt format (Unicode and legacy)
• .html format (as source code)
• .webarchive format (Apple's web archive format)


Bean transparently imports and exports these formats:
• .doc format (MS Word '97, minus images, margins, and page size)
• .xml format (MS Word 2003 XML, minus images)
• Bean can export all of the above formats to these formats:
• .html (web page format, minus images)
• .pdf
• .doc compatible (with images intact)
• .rtf (with images intact)

Bean doesn't...

...do footnotes, columns, pre-defined text styles, floating graphics (but it does do in-line graphics). Also, no OpenDocument (.odt) format support (but it will be added sometime after OS X Leopard is released).
Learn more about Bean here but do not download this version.

Bean FAQ

If you really fall in love with Bean then this might be useful to know. Bean is inside the CopyPaste Pro package. You can use an alias for Bean in CopyPaste or, you can open it once to edit a clip and then Ctrl-click the icon in the Dock and select "Keep in Dock". This way it is around even if CopyPaste is not launched. 

Preferences

IMPORTANT: In the Preferences holding the mouse over any item will reveal an info tool-tip.

System Tab

"Launch CopyPaste Pro at Login" (default is on) check this to launch CopyPaste Pro automatically at login.

"Install Contextual Menu" ** being removed because of changes in 10.6 ** if checked installs the CopyPaste Pro contextual menu. To remove this manually look in Library:Contextual Menu Items folder. We will soon make this preference install and remove the contextual menu.

"Check for Updates" will check to see if there is a newer version of CopyPaste Pro online to download. A good one to have checked. Newer means improved.

"Show Icon and Menu in the Dock" will show the CopyPaste icon in the dock. It will show after restarting your computer or restarting CopyPaste Pro. Control click on the icon to get all the menus.

General Tab

"Clips in the Clip History" the default is 50 but a larger number like 100 is fine too. The caveat here is that if you commonly work in applications like Photoshop with large images, video or sound (e.g., 100 MB each or so). In such a case, each image will take up a lot of computer memory (RAM). Also, browsing such an amount of clips stops being fun. But if you are like most people, then text with a few pictures doesn't use up much memory. The active Clip Archive is also held in RAM and can hold up to 43 clips (limited only by the number of available keys).

Check to "Save All Clips when Quitting" to retain them through restarts. This is very handy, having all the clips remembered from one day to the next.

"Omit twin clips on double copies" when checked means that if you copy the same data twice, only the last copy will be left in the clip history. Only entirely identical data is affected.

"Paste Text Clips without Styles" checking this means that every paste will contain only text and no formatting (e.g., like italic, bold, color, etc.) that might have been copied to the clipboard. Don't check this if want to see the Font and style (e.g., Bold or Color). The clips are copied with styles, so this setting only applies to what is pasted. You can temporarily reverse this setting if you paste with option key down from menu or Browser.

"Store all Drag and Drop in the Clip History" when checked will place anything you drag and drop into the Clip History. For example if you drag an image out of Safari to your desktop the image will also automatically be in your Clip History.

"ClipAppend" allows using Command-Option-c to append text to the main clipboard.

 

"Text Size of Clips in Preview" The Clip Browser and the Clip Palettes provide a preview of text and pictures in the clipboard. The text retains its style and size, but you can have the preview show it larger if this is more convenient.

"Click Clip" if checked you can copy by selecting and holding down the mouse for the period of time set. You can then paste the same way by moving the cursor to a new spot and holding the mouse down. This is not for everyone so its off by default.

"Reset all Defaults" on the first tab of the Preferences window also resets the settings in the other tabs to factory (we are checking on which factory that refers to) settings.

Clip Palettes Tab

"Open on Shift + Mouse at Screen Edge" when checked brings up the Archive Palette by holding down the shift key and putting the mouse on the right edge of the screen and if the mouse is put on the left edge of screen the History Archive is opened. When this is on you can turn off the floating icon.

"Open with Floating Icon" displays the two small (clipboard or circle) icons and allows you to choose to open the History (H) or Archive (A) Palettes.

Archive and History Palette behavior

If "Archive Drawer opens to Archives Organizer" is chosen, a click on a clip opens the drawer to a list of all Archives. Here you can add a new Archive, remove an Archive or edit the name of a selected Archive. A double click on the Archive makes it active and loads the Archive Palette with the new clips.
Option-click on a clip in the Palette will reverse this setting temporarily and the drawer opens in preview mode

if "Archive Drawer opens to Clip Preview" is chosen,  a click on a clip opens the drawer to a preview of the clip. The buttons and menus below the preview offer functions for this selected clip.
Option-click on a clip in the Palette will reverse this setting temporarily and the drawer opens in Organizer mode

"Mouse Click Required to open" means you need to click the floating icon to open the palettes. If a Clip Palette is open, a second click on the icon, will close it. Very handy if you are not using the "Align Mouse to first Clip" and you simply want to have a fast overview of the clips.

"Mouse Click Required to close" means the palettes won't just evaporate when the mouse is moved away, a mouse click on the red close ball is needed. The default is to have the Clip Palettes close automatically when you move the mouse out of the window. You could click the little green button in the title bar of the Clip Palette and it will temporarily stay open. Another click on the green button or on the red button resets this temporarily setting.

"Align Mouse to First Clip" when checked will move the mouse to be on the first clip. Very handy when you are not using the icons but the edges to open the palettes or if the Clip Palettes are not near the Floating Icons.
IMPORTANT: if you open the Clip Palette by just pointing, the mouse moves to the first clip and you might find it impossible to move the floating icons to a different place, because each time you try, the Palette closes and opens again moving the mouse away. You could click the little green button in the title bar of the Clip Palette so that it temporarily stays open. Then you can move the floating icon.

Floating Icon Appearance

"Open with Floating Icon" on/off for floating icons for history and archive.

"Clipboard or Circle Icon" allows you to choose the icon you like.

"Size and Opacity" allows choosing the size and transparency of the icons.

"Forecolor of History and Archive" allows choosing the color of the letter. In addition this changes the color of the letters C and P in the palettes.

"Background color" applies only to the circular icon and is hidden if the clipboard icon is chosen.

Browser Tab

"Open on Command + Mouse at Screen Edge" opens the History Browser if holding the Command key down and going to the left edge and the Archive Browser if you go to the right edge. If the browser is already open moving the mouse to the other edge will flip the browser.

"Flip Animation to Turn Browser" show a nice flipping animation as if you slowly turn a bar through the third dimensions. Better to have a fast computer for this animation.

"Open Clip Browser on Command v" If you do a keyboard paste and keep the Command key pressed, the Clip Browser appears after a short delay. A normal fast Command-v will not show the Clip Browser.

"Open Clip Browser on Command vv (= double v)" Shows the Clip Browser on double v but without delay.

IMPORTANT: Remember that you continue to hold down the Command key to see the Browser. (set the delay in the Animation Tab).

Graphics and timings adjustments to the clip browser.

"Fade-in Delay" The most important option here the default is half a second, which should be enough to simply paste by Command v without always showing the Clip Browser. This ensures that the normal use of the clipboard is not affected by CopyPaste Pro. If you wish to paste another clip, simply keep the Command key pressed for this delay time to see the browser fade in.

"Fade-in Duration" the time it takes the browser to appear. This is just a nice animation

"Opacity" makes the browsers background more or less transparent.

"Background Color" sets the background color of the browser.

"Focus Color" sets the selected item border color and in archive view the badge which indicates the assigned hot-key.

We have found the default settings to be good but you can experiment with all these options to get the effect you want. If after experimenting you just want the defaults back click the first tab of the Preferences window and hit the "Reset All Defaults".

Registration Tab

The Registration tab is the place to enter your registration number received from us, to unlock all features in CopyPaste Pro and to get rid of the nice splash-screen reminder. Here you can find a button to purchase and register CopyPaste Pro or to ask for your lost password.

With best wishes and perfect health to Steve Jobs and all of Apple for all wondrous and entertaining hardware and software they have created over the past 25 years.

Key Commands

The Command key ⌘ is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. An "extended" Macintosh keyboard —the most common type— has two Command keys (one on each side of the space bar). Some keyboards have the Command key only on the left. The Command key can also have the Apple logo too though that has been dropped on Macs made after August 2007. We use the Command key ⌘ symbol within the CopyPaste Pro icon. The reason is that the Command key is used on the Mac OS X to copy, cut and paste, and this might be the first key command that new Mac users will learn and use daily, even if they are mouse (pointing device) fans.

IMPORTANT: When you are going to copy to the Archive by typing Command-c-#, you have to release the c before you choose the slot to hold the clip. So Command + c (down) + c (up) + # (any key) is the exact process. Do not keep the c key pressed all the time. The same is crucial if you want to paste from the Archive by typing Command-v. You have to release the v before you choose the slot which holds the clip. So Command + v (down) + v (up) + # (any key) is the exact process. Do not keep the v key pressed all the time.

Hot Keys to Use Anywhere

Command c - as usual, copies to the clipboard and with CopyPaste Pro also adds the clip to the Clip History.
Command x - cuts in the usual way, and also adds the clip to the Clip History.
Command v - paste the last copied data. 
Command c # (# =  any number, letter or punctuation) - copy to the Clip Archive (e.g., Command-c-y, Command-c-#, Command c 8, etc.). There are 43 possible numbers, letters and punctuation available for use.
Command-c-c - If you press the c key twice (Command-c-c) the first free slot in the Clip Archive is used for the new clip and a hot-key is assigned automatically.

Hot Keys to Use in the Archive and History Palette 

Shift-key and move the mouse to the right screen edge- shows the Archive Palette.
Shift-key and move the mouse to the left screen edge- shows the History Palette.
If any of the two Clip Palettes is already on screen a Shift-key move will show the second palette.
Option-click on a clip in the Archive Palette temporarily reverses the setting to open the Archive drawer in Organizer or Preview mode
Option-click on a paste button temporarily reverses the setting to "Paste Clips without Styles"
Control-click on a paste button deletes the clip
Control-click on a copy button in the Archive Palette, locks the clip.

Hot Keys to Use in the Browser

The commands below work in the Clip Browser, as long as the Command key is continuously pressed.

Command v and let go of the v key - shows the Clip Browser. 
Repeat v key in the Clip Browser - moves the focus to the next clip even if the Clip Browser is not visible for the chosen delay.
Press c key in the Clip Browser - flips the window and shows the Clip Archive (Space works as well if it is not already being used in Spotlight).
Arrow right - goes to the next clip to the right in the horizontal Clip Browser.
Arrow left - goes to the next clip to the left in the horizontal Clip Browser.
Backspace - (delete key) deletes a single selected clip in the Clip Browser.

Option key and click a clip - to paste with or without style info. If you normally paste with styles, you will get the clip as plain text when you press the option key while pasting from menu or Browser. If you normally paste without styles (you have this item checked in the Preferences) then you can get the styled clip when you press the option key while pasting from menu or Browser.

Hot Key to Use in the Menubar

Command key and click a clip - to edit the clip in Bean the clip editor.

Option key and click  a clip - to paste with or without style info. If you normally paste with styles, you will get the clip as plain text when you press the option key while pasting from menu or Browser. If you normally paste without styles (you have this item checked in the Preferences) then you can get the styled clip when you press the option key while pasting from menu or Browser.

Hot Key for Contextual Menu 

Control click and hold - will bring up the contextual menu in most applications. Control click on any of the CopyPaste interface elements brings up a contextual menu for CopyPaste. On a two button mouse the right button is often set to do a contextual menu click. Additionally CopyPaste displays the contextual menu on the clips and on the floating icon when you simply hold the button pressed for half a second.

Screenshot direct to the Clip History (built in Mac OS but handy with CopyPaste)

For custom area:
Command Shift 4 - which gives you the cross-hairs. Click and drag this across anything you want to take a picture of but before you let up on the mouse hold down the control key. That puts the image direct into the clip history.
For window:
Command Shift 4 then spacebar - the spacebar changes the cross-hairs to a camera which will highlight any window its held over. Then hold the control button down then click on any window to take a picture which will put it in the clipboard and clip history.

History of the Clipboard

Apple Clipboard History

On 24th January 1984, Apple introduced the Mac. One of the Mac's unique abilities was the clipboard, which allowed you to copy info from one application and then paste that info into another application. Prior to the Mac and Lisa (another Apple computer model), operating systems had no inter-application communication. The clipboard was revolutionary in 1984.

We asked Bruce Horn (creator of the Mac Finder; see below) for some points about the history of the clipboard in computer science.

"The idea of cut/paste existed in Smalltalk (as did all of the modeless editing concepts), but the visible clipboard was created by Apple. I don't exactly know who thought of showing the contents of the last thing cut; that came out of the Lisa group, so maybe Larry Tesler would know. Tesler was also the originator of modeless text editing at PARC with his Gypsy editor, which then came to the Smalltalk system. The idea of multiple different but simultaneous types on the clipboard was my idea (e.g., text + pict, for example) and used the four-byte resource type, and was first done on the Mac. I think either Andy H. or Steve Capps actually wrote the code for the clipboard (i.e., the scrap manager) on the Mac". - Bruce Horn 2001.

Bruce Horn is definitely one of the people to ask about the history of the clipboard because he was part of the original team that created the Macintosh. He was responsible for the design and implementation of the Finder, Resource Manager, Dialog Manager, the type/creator mechanism for files and applications, and the multi-type clipboard design, among other architectural innovations built into the Macintosh OS. He worked long hours on computers with almost no memory during those early days to create the things that we now all take for granted.

Bruce was recruited at the age of 14 by Ted Kaehler to do some programming experiments in Smalltalk, at Alan Kay's Learning Research Group in the mid-seventies at the Learning Research Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). By the time he joined the Mac team in late 1981, he was an expert in object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. Bruce went on to work at Eloquent, Inc.; was one of the first employees at Adobe Systems, Inc.; Maya Design Group; and still later the Institute for Industrial Research in Oslo, Norway.

We also asked Steve Capps (another of the original team that created the Mac), and this is what he had to say: "We all three, Bruce, Andy and Steve (Bruce Horn, Andy Hertzfeld and Steve Capps) probably dabbled here and there, but Andy wrote the majority of the code in the initial release (all few hundred bytes of it). He also wrote the scrapbook desk accessory which let you simulate an n-deep clipboard. Bruce should indeed get the credit for the multiple representations of the same data idea -- that wasn't in Lisa as far as I know". Steve Capps 2006.

If anyone has any additional points or clarifications about the history of the clipboard please write and tell us. We are very interested.

CopyPaste History

CopyPaste, the first multiple clipboard utility, was created by Peter Hoerster in 1993. CopyPaste for Mac 6 was the first version. The reason he embarked on the programming was simply to generate the current Bahá’í date on his computer (Peter is a Bahá’í). Having enjoyed learning to do this, he continued programming, and the result was the incredibly popular CopyPaste for Mac 7, 8, 9 and years later CopyPaste X (for Mac OS X). Still later this became CopyPaste+yType. The latest version, a Universal binary for PowerPC and Intel Macs under Mac OS 10.4 (aka, Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is called CopyPaste Pro.

Peter passes on this message: "I am an engineer/programmer but have found over time that not all answers to life's problems can be found in science and technology. Modern life is fast paced and complicated. I have found it critical to know the answers that the world’s ancient religions provide to problems that have beset mankind."

In the Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh it is written:

The Great Being saith:

Regard man as a mine

rich in gems of inestimable value.

Education can, alone,

cause it to reveal its treasures,

and enable mankind to

benefit therefrom.

Please feel free to contact Peter Hoerster if you would like to find out more. It is an area he is always happy to talk about. If you have access to the internet, please visit the Bahai home page.

Throughout the history of the Faith, the Bahá’ís of Iran have been persecuted. In the mid-1800s, some 20,000 followers were killed by the authorities or by mobs, who viewed the infant movement as heretical to Islam.

While we release this version of CopyPaste Pro 2.0 there are more than 30 Baha'i friends in Iran arrested because of their religious belief. I dedicate my efforts to these long-suffering people who are in danger to be killed as well.  The past proved that the world-wide awareness of all these cases of injustice is one of the most powerful means to keep the Iranian authorities from just killing the unwanted Baha'is. Please search the Internet and find your way to spread the knowledge of this injustice. new reports

Q&A 

Q: Material keeps getting added to my main clipboard with every copy.
A: This is caused by a beta of LaunchBar. A product from another developer. We notified them of this on 3/11/09 and let them know how to solve it. We recommend you remove it for now.

Q: Show icon and menu in dock' works in OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard), but not in 10.4 (Tiger). Can I make it work in 10.4? 

A: The problem that you cannot make CopyPastePro appear in the Dock exists only in Tiger. In Leopard (10.5) it works. You can work around the problem manually by opening the application bundle and looking for the info.plist file. This file contains a key-word "LSUIElement" and you must set the value to "false". The next time you launch CopyPastePro, it will appear in the Dock.

Q: My clips are not being saved on quitting?
A: Once you purchase and register in the app then that feature is activated. If you own CopyPaste Pro and you just upgraded then make sure you are registered in the Registration dialog of the CopyPaste Pro Preferences. 

Q: I am an old CopyPaste user and just installed CopyPaste Pro. When I double click the application icon it opens but i don't see the CopyPaste icon in the menubar?
A: You have an old or corrupt version of the CopyPaste preference file or the contextual menu which is interfering. See the message below describing the locations of these 3 items and delete them. You can also use the Activity Monitor if this happens to quit CopyPaste Pro then delete the 1 pref, 1 ClipFolder and 1 Contextual Menu.

Q: There is a Preferences setting to paste either with or without style.  Sometimes I need to do both within a document (for example, copying material from another source that gets pasted without style, and also from within the document where style should be preserved).  A way to override for one paste or toggle the preference for this would be very helpful.

A: Option and click on a clip to paste without style.

Q: Why won't Bean open from any of the methods to open and edit clipboards in CopyPaste? or After selecting text in the browser window then selecting "open selection in editor", nothing happens?

A: The answer is the same for both. CopyPaste is confused by old versions of CopyPaste (which contains Bean) and/or old versions of Bean on your computer. Delete old ones and it will work fine. Also CopyPaste should be placed in the application folder.

Q: Why do some numbers never work correctly to access a clip in the Archive?

A: We recently found out that some people make the following mistake with the shortcuts: they type Command-c and do not release the c key entirely before they type a number. This often leads to problems. The correct way is to type Command-c then release c then type a number. If the c and number both are down (like Command-c-3), the shortcut cannot work as intended. The same of course applies to Command-v.

Q: Why won't CopyPaste launch at login? That item is set in the Preferences.

A: Check the following: go to the System Preferences -> Accounts panel. If there is an Login item for an old version of CopyPaste, delete it.  Usually the "Launch CopyPaste Pro at Login" takes care of this for you when you check it. Next you can manually create CopyPaste Pro as a startup item. This is done using the + and - buttons you see in the graphic to the right. (see below)