| SL: CMD-c & CMD-v don't work A friend of mine has a 2-year old 13" MBP running Snow Leopard.
For the past week or so copy & paste have ceased to work for him.
In Firefox, he wanted to copy a URL and then paste it into either a document or into a Skype chat, so he highlighted the page address in Firefox, did CMD-c and then did CMD-v in either the Skype chat window or in a Word document. What he got was not the URL but some other text he had typed earlier that day.
I suggested to him that he try menubar copy/paste functions instead of shortcut keys. That resulted in the same issue as before.
I began to suspect Firefox at that point (the 6-week release cycle has introduced some bugginess IMHO), so I suggested he try Safari instead to cut the URL from. But Safai exhibited the same CMD-c/CMD-v problems & the same problem with the menubar commands.
Has anyone here encountered this problem, and if so, do you know of a fix?
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 JohnInSJPremium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
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| Perhaps someone changed his keyboard map?
See the last comment here:
»apple.stackexchange.com/question···rk-again
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| Nope.
Apple original keyboard mapping still in effect. First thing I checked. |
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 HiVoltPremium
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
kudos:17 | reply to MaynardKrebs
Check the "Universal Access" preference panel to see if something hasn't been turned on there...
What happens when he does CMD+P (for Print)? |
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kitsune
join:2001-11-26
Sacramento, CA | reply to MaynardKrebs
I would suggest trying it in a test user (guest user works great for this) that way you know if it's account specific or system wide. |
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| Apple Update & reboot cleared the problem up.
I've seen a number of similar reports in Google searches and there's no consistent 'fix', or no consistent culprit - sometimes it's a web browser, sometimes it goes away when apps are closed or windows closed. It's all over the map. |
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