Re: Copy/paste not working
From: Dave Christie (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/24/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:41:37 -0800
Some more info: switching back to the local console on the
remote system clears the problem -- I can then go back to
a remote desktop and it's ok. (Don't need to do anything
on the local console other than unlock it.) Obviously not
a viable solution for truly "remote" access though.
I've also found that I can readily induce this condition
with a simple VBA Excel macro that does a large number of
copy & paste operations, like so:
For i = 1 to 1000
[A1].Copy
ActiveSheet.Paste [A2]
[A1] = [A1] + 1 ' contents must change to
Next i ' get new instance of copy
Run this via remote desktop and watch the clipboard
contents (do Ctrl-C twice in Excel to display it). Some
number of copies will be entered in the clipboard but then
it will stop accumulating them, although the macro
completes. Now Copy/Paste is broken. (If a larger range
is copied it'll happen sooner.) The macro runs noticably
faster after this, probably because the clipboard has
stopped communicating with the client's clipboard. I've
only ever run into this when it involves Office on the
remote system. Sure seems like a bug to me.
One last thing I've discovered: when the condition occurs,
doing a paste on the client system (into Notepad or
whatever) will clear the condition, **as long as what you
paste is from the remote system**. If you copy something
locally on the client first, it's game over.
Dave Christie
>-----Original Message-----
>I've been having the same problem -- it works at first,
>but after lots of copy & paste operations it just stops
>working. Disconnecting and reconnecting doesn't fix it.
>The Copy & Paste entries on the context menu are enabled,
>but they don't do anything, nor does Ctrl-c/v. Excel
>displays a "Cannot empty clipboard" message whenever I
>trying to copy something on a spreadsheet, but the
>clipboard window shows it being empty. The clipboard
>status display says "Item not collected". It will
however
>subsequently do the paste properly, but only if it's an
>Excel object that's being copied from within that
instance
>of Excel (but the copy never shows in the clipbook
>window). VBA macros doing copy & paste will also stop
>with this error message.
>
>If I run the clipbook viewer (clipbrd.exe) on the remote
>system to try and view the clipboard, it just hangs,
>keeping the CPU busy, after opening the Local Clipbook
>window (which remains empty). I have to kill it via task
>manager. I've also tried stopping and restarting the
>clipbook service; that didn't help.
>
>I suspect that logging off the remote system rather than
>just disconnecting might fix it, but that's a poor
>solution when you have lots of work in progress.
>
>This sounds too similar to this MS knowledge base issue:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
>us;840872
>to be a coincidence. But my remote system is XP Pro, not
>Server 2003.
>
>Dave Christie
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote in
>message
>>news:OJpiqKYzEHA.2876@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> You'll need to browse to the destination device to
copy
>file and or folder
>>> objects. These can't be copied from the remote window
>to the local window
>>or
>>> vice versa. If that's what you mean.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
>newsgroup.
>>> Microsoft Certified Professional
>>> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>>>
>>
>>No - I mean simply copying and pasting text from one app
>to another, both
>>running on the remote machine.
>>
>>--
>>Peter Aitken
>>
>>Remove the crap from my email address before using.
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
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