Thank you very much for your wisdom and tried the Troubleshooting instructions, and found things in KM that I never knew existed (which I guess is a testament to how well KM works as I've never had to debug an issue with a macro before). Copy 3-4 things to it in the normal fashion, and make sure it's working correctly.Ĭ) Do you have any other apps or utilities that use or might interfere with the clipboard?ĭ) Do you have any other apps or utilities that use or might interfere with the Cmd-C keystroke?Į) Does the problem occur when you boot your system in safe-mode?į) If you create a clean new user and install only Keyboard Maestro, does the problem still occur? Use the Copy action or the Select or Show a Menu Item action to select the menu item Edit › Copy.ī) Bring up the Clipboard History Switcher and see what's in the History. There are too many things that can go wrong with simulated keystrokes. Hey is basically impossible – so why is the impossible happening on your system? These kinds of things don't occur in a vacuum.Ī) Do not simulate Cmd-C unless it's the only option available. Hope this : My apologies for bringing this to your attention, but do you think that this might be worth adding as a workaround to the official documentation or as a note to the wiki? Restarted MacOS just to tick off that old chestnut. Even for Excel, on simulating Command-C, the selection would change to a dotted box to prove that Command-C had indeed been successfully simulated.Īdding delays after the Command-C did not help.Īlso tried killing pboard process to make sure this was not a case of the clipboard process having issues. However, I soon discovered that simulating keystrokes was definitely working since I was able to get KM to simulate typing characters inside the problematic applications. I had followed the steps suggested for fixing Accessibility issues ( TIP: Resolving Catalina/Mojave Accessibility/Security Permissions Issues), but they did not help. However, this was a red herring as I soon discovered that Copy (function or simulated keystroke) did not work in other applications as well. Initially, I thought that this might be due to an update I recently installed in MS Excel so tried using the apple script posted here: to no avail. I am on Catalina (10.15.7) with KM Version 9.2. The macro in question was last used 3 weeks ago, so I am not sure what happened during this time to cause this. I had been struggling with this issue of Copy (either the Copy action or by simulating Command-C key) not working for a couple of hours since today morning. Without the step that executes pbpaste and stores it in clipboard, no matter what I did, Copy did not work in the multiple applications that I tried (TextEdit, BBEdit, Excel, Notes).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |