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CopyPaste Pro... Time Machine for your Clipboard!

The latest incarnation of the one and only, award winning, easy to use, award winning, multiple clipboard editing,archive and display utility. See and edit any clip in your history of copies or in the more permanent clip archives. Use the new Clip Browser (horizontal) or Clip Palette (vertical) to see all clipboards in an instant. Save all clipboards through restarts. Tools to act on clipboard data. Never lose a clip again. CopyPaste is a time saver/life saver for all Mac beginners thru advanced users.

If you have never tried it, now is the time, it operates invisibly in the background remembering your copies and allows you see a Clip History of clips going back in time or to keep clips permanently in the Clip Archive. Try it and find out for yourself why its so popular.

Screencasts:
Screencast: Installation, Clip History and Archives | Screencast: Clip Browser and Palette | Screencast: Clip Tools Check out the: Online Manual

CopyPaste Pro is the latest version of CopyPaste and is a complete rewrite and update. CopyPaste has been massively popular since its first release. What has made it so widely appreciated? Usefulness. CopyPaste magnifies and multiplies the usefulness of the humble clipboard.

One of the revolutionary features that came with the Mac in 1984 was the unique ability to select text or pictures, etc, then copy that data into a clipboard, to hold that content temporarily and then paste it in the same application or a different one. The clipboard was used to transfer all kinds of info between programs on the Mac, and later this feature was imitated in many other operating systems.

A few years later CopyPaste was the first application to add multiple clipboards. This meant that more data could be moved in less time. CopyPaste also allowed these multiple clipboards to be displayed, edited, archived and saved through restarts. CopyPaste revealed the untapped potential of the Mac clipboard.

The latest incarnation of CopyPaste has those same underlying abilities, but with this latest version unveiled in 2008 (CopyPaste Pro) a new instantly available window (like the Apple application switcher) that lets you navigate through the Clip History and Clip Archive with a speed and ease that is again as revolutionary as the first version of CopyPaste. An editor called Bean is now part of the CopyPaste Pro ecology. Bean allows you to edit clipboards.

CopyPaste Pro is profoundly simple to use and yet extremely powerful.

CopyPaste Pro Features:

  • Multiple (unlimited depending on memory) clipboards available by hotkey, menu, contextual menu, clip palette and clip browser.
  • Save all clipboards thru restarts. Never lose an edit again. This alone is a savior.
  • Clip History maintains a stack of cuts or copies and even drags.
  • Clip Editor (Bean) allows immediate editing of any clip and also is an excellent word processor.
  • Clip Archives to keep available info you use repeatedly
  • The Clip Browser allows vertically viewing all clips and their contents. Particularly good for pictures.
  • The Clip Palettes allow horizontal viewing and access to all clips. Particularly good for text.
  • Drag images from Safari directly into the clip history
  • Clip Tools to act on clipboard data in dozens of useful ways that save time like: - Email extractor which grabs email addresses from large amounts of text - Url extractor grabs url's from large chunks of text, shorten urls (great for twitter) and many others
  • Drag and drop any clip in the clip browser and to/from applications
  • Contextual menus to give easy access to the clipboards from anywhere
  • With the clip editor open text, PDF, RTF, HTML, Apple Archive and many other file types
  • Easy ways to organize and make available all the clipboard data for reuse.
  • Many more features built in and more coming....

CopyPaste has been available for over 10 years. Users of those earlier version (CopyPaste+yType, CopyPaste-X, CopyPaste Classic) may be interested in the changes from those earlier versions.

  • Universal Binary. Native on Intel and PowerPC, perfect for Mac OS Tiger (10.4), Leopard (10.5) and beyond.
  • Much faster; especially on Intel Macs and in Leopard.
  • Rewritten in Cocoa and Objective C, to access the latest Mac OS X features for fast and rock-solid development and upgrades.
  • The clip editor (called Bean) is now a powerful word processor.
  • Many new ways to view, browse, edit and act on clips.
  • New easier and simpler interface that follows the look and feel of Apple's Dock and Application Switcher.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.2.3:
  • [Add] This version has a new preferences option to adjust the font size of the clips in the palettes. The default is 11 point. The valid range now is from 9 to 24 points. You can open the preferences and if the palette is visible, you can instantly see the result when you confirm the new size with tab or return.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Script Software
Downloads:60,633
  - Version d/l:563
Utilities:System
License:Shareware
Date:08 Feb 2010
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$30.00
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Feb 8 2010

MACLOVER1.1  Since I couldn't add CLIPS under the "OTHER PEOPLE SUGGEST" area on this page (guess 4 recommendations is maxed out ?... I'm posting this:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28718/clips

.. this thing is perfection.. Actually copies transparency in Photoshop files and interface kicks a**... and organization has many options and levels.. the best, seriously... CP is sooo overrated in my opinion.  
(Version 2.2.3)

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Feb 8 2010

SHOOFLYSHOO  Does anybody else feel that CopyPaste is slow to catch a "⌘C" when doing a quick keystroke? I find that it misses copies that are usually caught if the program is not running -- this has led me not to use the program anymore. Perhaps there is some setting within the preferences that I am not aware of, that will help change the speed/sensitivity of the keystroke capture?

Thanks  
(Version 2.2.3)

praisebury
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Feb 8 2010

SHOOFLYSHOO  I was referring to Command-C in my previous post --  
(Version 2.2.3)

praisebury
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Jan 27 2010

DON SYKES  KUDOS to the developer on this new release. The ability to name clips is brilliant. I am getting more use out of CopyPaste than ever!  
(Version 2.2)

praisebury
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Jan 18 2010
*****

PATOCHE  First class software...

Had iClips for long and loved it...after the problems encountered with Snow Leo, I tried many many differents softs and bought some...I was not completely happy.

Today I gave a try to Copy and Past Pro and knew that it was the one ;-)

Very very smart soft.

Have a try...Love it.

Pat  
(Version 2.1.5)

praisebury
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Jan 18 2010

LUX  Seems to be one step forward and two backward with this app. None of the new prefs work in this version and initially the floating icons disappeared. Also, the developer is never the quickest to respond to emails. Issues I have had with this clipboard in the past were dismissed for weeks by the developer before finally agreeing there was a problem.

I'm going back to the previous version of CopyPaste Pro and intend to try out the free ClipMenu.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Jan 14 2010
*****

BLUESTAR  Great utility, but with this version (2.1.4) the dock icon will NOT go away even though I set it NOT to be in the dock in prefs.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Nov 6 2009

ROBOTANK  CopyPaste Pro used to be great, but lately it's been very unstable for me. It's prone to frequent crashes that seem to occur most often when I'm accessing the clip browser. The real problem is that after the crash, all clipboard history since the last time the app was quit is lost. I'd love to wait around for this to be fixed, but the constant risk of losing all of my clips at any moment is more than I can live with. I'm currently looking at alternatives to CopyPaste. PTHPasteboard Pro seems to be the only one with comparably advanced functionality.  
(Version 2.1.2)

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Jan 14 2010

BILLY THE BIKER  Try ClipMenu. I have never had a problem with it. Free!  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Sep 25 2009

LUX  Version 2.1.2 does now save history through restarts.

However, I have been unable to open clips in history and archives, since installing the latest version 2.1.2 and updating OS X to 10.5.8. Although I had downloaded and installed CopyPaste 2.1.2 I discovered Bean version 2.0.3 in CopyPaste Resources. The latest version of Bean is 2.0.4, released 31 August. After manually installing Bean 2.0.4. CopyPasteI was then able to open clips.   
(Version 2.1.2)

praisebury
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Aug 13 2009

LUX  I've posted before about CopyPaste Pro not saving clips copied before restarts when "save clips when quitting" is checked in preferences. I have found that the only way to be sure that all clips are remembered in history is to quit CopyPaste Pro before restart. Here is part of a reply I received from the developer July 3 2009:

"i thought before i check in with peter again on that that i would check again to see if it occurs and strangely enough it i did. so you are correct there is a problem with the history not remembering items copied before a restart. i will let peter know and he will get back to us shortly."  
(Version 2.0.9)

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Sep 10 2009

LUX  No change with version 2.1. Does not remember history after restarts. Part of archives lost after restart. I can't use this software.   
(Version 2.1)

praisebury
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Jun 9 2009

FOULGER  Really Great indispensable app but I just wish the clips could be able to be renamed, that would make it so much more useful.  
(Version 2.0.9)

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Jun 17 2009

UCE  Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the annoying Copy/Paste message I get when I restart?

I suspect many have seen it - It's in the shape of a clipboard.

Thanks,

uce.  
(Version 2.0.9)

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