Copy-Paste Suddenly doesn't Work

i just tried the shadowridgehope solution and no luck

 

This does work, but it certainly isn't recommended.
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Mine's been spotty today - it seems it's mostly working again, though. Very odd.

 

Xenos, can you verify that you've installed the 2007-009 update?

I am using Tiger 10.4.11 and PD 5582 and neither Apple+C or Apple+V work, nor does copy/pasting via right-click. I've attempted the re-install of ParallelsTools and the other recommended workarounds.

I can also tell you that when I copy some text from Windows, it immediately appears in the "Current clipboard content" box in the Parallels Tools Center. When I copy some text from OSX, the "Current clipboard content" box stays blank. IIRC, when this was working, any text that was on the clipboard would appear in this box, whether it was copied from Windows or from the Mac.

Also, interestingly, when I copy text from Windows (and it appears as expected in the clipboard content box) and then copy text from the Mac, the clipboard content box goes blank.

I understand that the Parallels dev folks are somewhat at the mercy of what changes are made in a Apple security update, so I understand an issue like this can't be fixed overnight. That being said, I'm hoping for some additional engagement by the Parallels folks -- maybe in the form of additional messages in this topic that detail the steps Parallels has taken to reproduce the problem. Something -- anything -- to let us know that you've read the details others have provided in this topic and are acting on them.

 

Security Update 2007-009 v1.1

Apple has released an update to the 2007-009 Security Update, v 1.1:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307224

"Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 addresses an issue introduced in Security Update 2007-009 that may cause Safari to unexpectedly quit when browsing to certain websites."

Alas, it does not appear to fix the PD copy-paste problems introduced with 2007-009.
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Dear all,

Thank you for the reports. Parallels engineers are investigating the issue. I will be able to give you an answer in three days.

All of you have Tiger as Host OS and Parallels Desktop build 5582 - am I right? If not, please let me know.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

I am on 5160 (and i think several others too).

I think all of us with the problem are on Tiger post-update.

 

Hey, that's dedication; working on Christmas day

10.4.11 + update
Parallels 5582

 

+1

10.4.11 + update
Parallels 5582

 

Thanks for adjusting!

Merry Christmas!

Best regards,
Xenos

 

Mac Pro Intel 2.66
Mac OS 10.4.11
Parallels 5160
Installed "Security Update 2007-009 (Universal)" (1.0)

Can't copy from Mac to XP

peter

 

Run Apple Update again: Apple has released an update to the 2007-009 Security Update, v 1.1

 

Still doesn't work after Security Update 2007-009 v1.1

 

Moi aussi:-(

So that's
Mac OS 10.4.11 + Security Update 2007-009 v1.1
Parallels 5582

 

gegervision, you recommend running Apple Update, yet 2 participants have done so and report no improvement.

Does it work for you?

peter

 

Getting the Word...

This is such a huge problem, can we ask that a new thread be started once a genuine solution has been found? I need the fix ASAP and I don't want to have to keep searching various "clipboard" threads to find the fix when it shows up. Or will all Parallels users get an email?

Thanks.

(Or maybe the "Thread Subscription: Instant email notification" option below will let me know it has been fixed??)

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MacBook
10.4.11
Windows 2000 Professional
All security updates.
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Temporary workaround using scripts

I wrote a couple of scripts to write and read the Mac clipboard to and from a file. This is clearly inferior the permanent fix needed, but it reduces copy and pasting to a few clicks .
I've included 1 applescript script and 2 windows macros (one better onerequires MS Word).

AppleScript:
set clipfile to open for access file "Macintosh HD:Users:Shared:clipfile.txt" with write permission
set eof of the clipfile to 0
write (the clipboard as text) to clipfile
close access the clipfile

Windows Script file (put this into a a file with an .wsf extension):
<job id="Job1">
<script language="VBScript">
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\.PSF\.Mac\Users\Shared\clipfile.txt", 1)
aaa = objFile.Readall
objFile.Close
Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
objIE.Navigate ("about:blank")
objIE.Document.parentwindow.clipboardData.SetData "text", aaa
objIE.Quit
</script>
</job>

When you run this .wsf file, you get a couple of warnings from Internet explorer. I wrote the following word macro that doesn't put up warnings:

Sub copyClipFileToClipboard()
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\.PSF\.Mac\Users\Shared\clipfile.txt", 1)
aaa = objFile.Readall
objFile.Close
Application.ActiveWindow.Activate
Selection.TypeParagraph
Application.ActiveWindow.Selection.Text = aaa
Application.ActiveWindow.Selection.Copy
End Sub

I have attached the word doc with this macro. I zipped it to make sure the macro makes it through.

I hope this helps.

James

 

A Solution for those with Update already installed.

If security update is already installed , download 10.4.11 Combo update ( may get away with the standard update from 10.4.10(but I didn’t try that)) then once down loaded , delete /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework then install the combo update, DO NOT RESTART TILL THE UPDATE IS INSTALLED. once rebooted all worked for me.

 

I'm in the same situation. No mac->xp copy. 10.4.11 with Security Update 2007-009 (Universal) -- 1.0 installed 12-17, and 1.1 installed 12-22. Three questions:

1/ shadowriderhope reports intermittent ability to paste, which isn't consistent with other reports. Anyone have any followup or theories?

2/ Xenos reports that everything works fine with 10.5.1. Has anyone who installed the 10.4.1. security update upgraded to 10.5? Can we verify that that performing the 10.5 upgrade fixes the problems?

3/ If Parallels (Xenos?) gets info from Apple on this, could you post that fact here? Best that the rest of us not hound Apple till you guys do so.

 

Hello all,

Thank you for proposing the workarounds.

Parallels engineers are investigating the issue which is really of a high priority for us.
I hope tomorrow I will be able to let you know if the workarounds proposed above could be recommended for everybody and if upgrading to Leopard fixes the bug.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Best regards,
Xenos