PTHPasteboard Pro4.5.7

I came here because I just upgraded to Mojave and a more-recent Mac. As part of the install, I used Target mode to let the installer pull all my files off the older Mac. PTHPasteboard Pro wanted me to re-enter my serial number on the newer Mac, but it fails because the license server is no longer online. I'm really surprised to read all this here about people having so many problems! I've been using it on every Mac OS up to High Sierra without a hiccup. I was hoping to find a file-based way to transfer the license, but it seems folks have given up on PTH long ago. I guess I was lucky!

Will Pastebot (http://tapbots.com/pastebot/beta/) be the next PTHPasteboard? Not sure, but wasn't Paul Haddad (one of the guys behind Tapbots) the developer of PTHPasteboard? I hope I am right because PTHPasteboard was alwyas my preferd pasteboard manager.

It seems the web site has gone AWOL, and the download link no longer works. Shame - nice software, which I have come to rely on.

A reason more to avoid to DOWNGRADE to Yosemite!
I'm still using with full satisfaction the version 4.4.1on Mavericks and, when I try Yosemite on the partition I made to see if at least I will be able to work with Yosy as with Mav, the bigger miss I feel is just my beloved PTHP (beside the UGLY interface of anything, by Spotlight to Mail, by icons to fonts… but it's not the first time that Apple does an UI downgrade).
I still wonder what the bloody hell will FORCE ME to windowize my Mac bending myself to use this OS mistake or 'skipping this version' hoping in a regret and that Steve puts his HOLY HAND on the head of Tim 'enlightening him with an understanding fatherlike smile.
4 stars because of the too high price that made it a niche product victim of a totally wrong marketing strategy!

It's a shame. They discontinued support for OS X 10.10. Don't understand why they wouldn't simply update the code to make it fully compatible. They are almost there. The only problem is that it does not work with the Safari browser?

FAR TOO EXPENSIVE, that's maybe why they sold too few of them to make it a 'must have' largely diffused, as it would deserve, having been the BEST clipboard manager out there! And now, abandoning it as it seems, not the developer but the marketing responsible is FAILING!

Quit working after upgrade from 10.7 to 10.8.4. Uninstall and reinstall did not resolve the problem. Are we dead in the water?

I gave an honest comment and my Reg Code was revoked and/or no longer valid. I feel that Clip Menu is better than PTH Pasteboard and Scrapbook and it is free.I never felt that this is a good solution for multiple clipboard items.

Easily paste commonly used items (text, pics, etc.). Keep much more than one item at a time on the clip board. I use it constantly.

Scrapbook is a lot better in Lion and is a lot more versatile. It makes PTH pasteboard somewhat decadent. I paid for it years ago but prefer Scrapbook for my copying and pasting chores.

I've tried the others. PTHPasteboard Pro is still the best of the multiple clipboard utilities. I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3. It works very quickly. It works with large text passages or graphics. And it uses very little CPU time. It has been very very stable. It doesn't take up much screen space. I love the fact that it has the capability of processing the text in the clipboard (e.g. convert to UPPERCASE, translate to Spanish, etc.) before pasting the contents. I like the fact that it can show as both a pop-up menu and menu. PTHPastboard Pro has done the job for me for years. I use to use the free version for years and converted to the pro version during the conversion years ago from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. I keep looking for a better solution. But I haven't found one yet.

This has become excruciatingly slow on Lion, especially when triggering it from keyboard shortcuts. No response from the developers and no updates for some time. I've reluctantly switched to iClip.

This is probably my favorite multiple-clipboard app. Stable, easy to use but very powerful too. It embeds text formatting/cleaning abilities to clipboard items, and lets you create macros you can apply to text too. It's good to see that the developers are still keeping the utility up to date too!

Irrespective of what one may think of the PTH sales policy (and for what it is worth, I don’t think it would harm their business to provide a download of the limited free version), this is for my money the ultimate clean functional clipboard manager. It does not concern itself with providing eye-candy, just an elegant and very flexible interface for controlling clippings in any way that suits you—via keyboard or mouse, from menubar or window. The choice of pasting formatted or plain text can be made very simply on paste in a variety of intuitive ways. At first I regarded filters as unnecessary feature-bloat, but once I started using them their usefulness became apparent, enabling PTHP to replace several other text-manipulation utilities. Using a translation filter to paste text from the clipboard in another language is particularly cool. Once you have sampled what it can do and how it does it, $25 does not seem that much for something you are likely to use several times a day.

Secretly updating people to a pay only version? You've got to be kidding. That's after selling off the free version to horrible developers and leaving users stranded. You want to send this guy money? ClipMenu is powerful and free. The only significant thing PTHpasteboard does which ClipMenu doesn't do is sync clipboards between multiple machines, which seems to me a bit of a security hole anyway.

I had never tried a clipboard manager until I downloaded PTHPasteboard about a year ago. I was instantly in heaven, and this was with the free version. I looked at the features of the paid version, decided I didn't need them, and was happy not to have to pay the $25. Then about two months ago, either I pressed the wrong button or something, but my free version went away and all I got was messages about upgrading to the Pro version for $$$. I was pissed, so I tried just about every other clipboard manager out there. Unfortunately, by that time I'd been spoiled by PTHPasteboard. I even tried to get along without a clipboard manager, but that turned out to be a massive pain in the neck. Today, I gave in and bought the Pro version. Bliss again. Like others, I wish the price was more reasonable, but the basic functionality is so nice that about my only complaint is that now I have to investigate to see all the other things that PTHPasteboard Pro does so I make certain to get my money's worth.

I agree with the previous viewer, but I'd give the PTHPB 5 stars. I think that its "problem" is also its major virtue: there are so many configuration choices to set in preferences, it takes time to set up. And, the documentation about how some of the options about Window behavior fit together could be clearer. Other apps don't have as many options or features, and so are somewhat simpler to use. So this is an App for those of us who want a lot of control, and in this category, I think that it's the best.

I've used PTH Pasteboard for several years. I've tried most of the alternatives, including the free ones. PTH Pasteboard more than the others gets the right amount screen space, but not too much-it's configurable; shows enough of the clips to be useful, also configurable (and pops up more if you hover); and offers the most options for pasting. The Pro version was worth the investment to me: I wanted the ability to exclude sensitive information and some of the text-processing filters can be a time saver, compared to going to TextSoap. There are many options for configuring size, window appearance, and where the windows will open. On the negative side, with too many extra pasteboards, it's easy to forget which menubar symbol opens which. I find it easier to memorize the hotkeys. All in all it's a solid product.

The JumpCut and ClipMenu utilities work great as alternatives to PTHPasteboard Pro, and unlike the latter, both are FREE! I just tested them and they are compatible with Snow Leopard and they are not bloatware, system resource-hogs.

Good riddance PTHPasteboard Pro! You were fine as a free utility under 10.5 (I would have paid maybe $5 for the non-Pro version.) for the basic functions that was offered, but now you've changed the terms and apparently anyone with good sense and a modest pocketbook agrees $25 is a RIDICULOUS amount to charge for a utility that offers so little. So, as people switch to Snow Leopard, they will toss this like the bit of fluff it always was. And that will be that.

Wow. I have been a fan of this software for years--hacking it to work when it didn't, lamenting its disappearance when it went away, and excitedly welcoming its return when its developer promised to keep a free version. Then I get a notification that an update is available. It updates me to the *paid* version of the app. That's sneaky. It's deceptive. It's bad business practice. If the developer wants to discontinue the free version, so be it. But don't pull the sneaky update thing. Frankly, the product is no better than ten others out there. My needs were minimal, so I liked the free version of this. I will certainly never purchase a product from this developer. Once you see someone is dishonest in their practices, the business relationship is soured.

it is true that 4.5 is too expensive for basic functions. but from 4.5's dialogs it appears that when the demo license expires, the program will revert to the free 4.5 version and keep working in this mode (lacking basically 2 advanced features, but retaining 10.6 compatibility). i wonder whether this is true...

Deepest thanks to the developer for getting this out so quickly! I really missed it since updating to Snow Leopard (even though it's only been 5 days.) A great tool; rock solid and extremely handy.

PTHPasteboard (lite version) has been very useful these past few months, but I am glad I didn't buy the pro version. Their web site has been reduced to the notice: PTHPasteboard is no longer available for sale because of Snow Leopard issues. You can still download it here. So it looks like the end is nigh.

It's now 6 days after my original post, and 45 days after the first request for support that I sent to this company, 35 days after the 2nd, 25 days after the 3rd, 15 days after the 4th, and 5 days after the 5th, and this crappy, useless bunch of scammers still has not replied even once. Their website gives no address, no phone number, indeed no way of contacting them at all except the utterly useless email address info@pth.com -- please feel free to send them SPAM, insulting emails, anything you wish. That email address again is info@pth.com, and they are useless. They do not write usable software, and they don't support the ulcerous excrement they sell. Again, they are useless. If they have the cojones to contact me via this forum I would be pleased to hear from them if for no other reason to confirm that they still exist, and therefore that they simply do not care about users of their herpes-ridden products as I suspect.

I have enjoyed using PTHPasteboard for over a year, and it's become a staple in my computing repertoire. But something weird is happening to that company (PTHconsulting). The app is starting to do funny things, and customer service doesn't seem to exist anymore. A couple of months ago my pasteboard suddenly started to dump all of my items for no apparent reason. It was not in response to updating any system components, like the OS 10.5.7 update or a QuickTime update, it just suddenly lost all my clipboard items for no reason. And every time I re-enter my items PTHPasteboard loses them again within a few days or weeks. So, I wrote an email to customer support, and then another, and then another -- each one automatically addressed in my own email client (Entourage) when I clicked the "Contact Us" link on their customer support webpage. But no response was forthcoming. So, tomorrow I'm going to call them, and after crapping on them for ignoring my emails, maybe I'll discover WTF went wrong with PTHPasteboard 4.4.1. But I doubt it. In case they're as dead as I think they are, I just installed Clipboard Evolved.

Tried them all, used to be an avid CopyPaste pro user until I tried PTH. MAN what a great application. Not only is it more stable than CopyPaste, but it has more features, and is FREE with those features. If you want to customize it even more, you have to pay. But even then it's STILL a better deal than the other PAY ONLY clipboard applications that have irrelevant windows and inane GUIs. No PTH doesn't have a fancy system resource taking up GUI, and I wouldn't want it to.

I tried Jumpcut, iClip, and CopyPaste Pro, but this one is better than all of them. It needs an overhaul graphically, but it is the most functional of all the other copy-paste whatchamacallits I have played with.

Like the previous poster, I was hooked within minutes. I am a registered iClip user but this is SO much better. As for the "Buy" icon, it is tiny but it does turn red! And is, for me, in no way annoying.

Within 5 minutes of use I was completely loving this utility. It blows iClip out of the water. Wow. I particularly love the auto-hide feature which lets me have the clipboard on the side of the screen. So it gets shown when I hover with the mouse. It also hides automatically. The design is spot on. Thank you PTH. The only thing I dislike is the naming, PTHPasteboard is ugly and anti-Mac... Name it Pasteboard! That would be a better fit for this elegant product ;)

Thank you KKNOPP for the warning below. I have always been a fan of PTHPasteboard, but now I will keep the old version until the developer has realized the sense of your message, and removed the nagware. (I post this as an independent comment to give the anti-nagware lobbying some weight.)

I have tried different apps but this one is for office purposes definitely the best I could find. Simple, clean and easy to use and do not bother with a graphic overloaded GUI. The possibility to use customized filters is great. In combination with the customized keystrokes something I never will miss again. The filter makes any other app for "cleaning" text unnecessary. The app is stable an works smoothly.

I wish I could say that it didn't bother me... So thanks, espiridon, for keeping spirits high ;-)... it is somewhat sad that information is not taken as such but as some weird kind of warfare...

Simply the best clipboard enhancer I have seen. It has worked flawlessly for me for years, in Panther, Tiger and now Leopard.

I've been using Pasteboard for 7 years in its various incarnations - very happy with it now in Tiger, I've ditched ShadowClipboard for the moment because copying a whole row from an Excel or NeoOffice spreadsheet causes it to go into infinite loop - Pasteboard can handle this, and is also more consistent in its plain text pasting. Nice.

I don't know the software, but people searching for a basic cliptboard feature don't need more than Quicksilver has to offer- aside being a launcher, execution and search tool etcetcetc... ;-)

This piece of software is truly superb. The basic features that you get for free are fantastic, and the premium features are exactly the ones that you want to pay for. Well conceived and executed.

SAME PROBLEMS AS BEFORE The same problems I mentioned regarding the previous versions are still present. They are: 1. If one has to use it in "always show window" mode - After completing the paste actions it is impossible to close either the Main or Custom windows by clicking on their red close buttons as they are disabled and their menu bar icons do not hide and then show the windows again. It would be helpful if both these options could be available to the user as when the window is needed for pasting the user would be able to click on the required window menu bar icon and after using it could just click on the red close button. Nobody expects the windows to be shown 24 hours a day. 2. It would be useful if it were possible to move items (rather than copy) from one Custom window to another, e.g., by using a hotkey whilst dragging the item. 3. If one wishes to change the order of items in a Custom window by dragging them, they are not moved but instead are copied to the target location. The Pro version, which just enables more features, has the same problems so I can't even upgrade to that.

I still think CopyPaste is the king of clipboards and then of course if you run QuickSilver (everyone should at leat take a look at QS in my opinion).. there is also a simple clipboard memory accessible that way.. so.. er... well...

I've used a number of other clipboard utilities, and generally after some period of initial novelty I find that I'm just not using them because they make it awkward to find the clips I want. Often they try to make up for this with flashy graphics, but the truth is that the cost is usability. So I was very pleased to find PTHPasteboard. I've actually kept using it and found it an excellent program that keeps out of the way until I want to access it and then is really easy to pull up. It may not have the graphics "flash" of some, but it works very well indeed. I went for the Pro version partly because I wanted to reward the developer for his efforts - and also because the filter functionality is very good.

Firstly I would like to thank the developer for fixing 2 issues out of the 5 I mentioned below (version 4.0.5) - now only one window is activated at a time & the scroll bar doesn't jump up to the top. The only main problem with the application, if one has to use it in "always show window" mode (like me) is: After completing my paste actions it is impossible to close either the Main or Custom windows by clicking on their red close buttons as they are disabled and their menu bar icons do not hide and then show the windows again. It would be helpful if both these options could be available to the user as when the window is needed for pasting the user would be able to click on the required window menu bar icon and after using it could just click on the red close button. Obviously the developer did not intend for the windows to be shown 24 hours a day :-)

Correct, not with this version. The fact that it was bringing up other windows when you used a HotKey was a big issue with a lot of people, so 4.1.1 was changed to address that.

The new release is now much better - but there are still some annoying things, e.g. I don't need additional information when selecting items in the little menu (this is really annoying because it slows down the behavior of your app). If you don't know what I mean - look at the app Jumpcut and examine its menu. It's similar to yours but without additional information. IMHO very simple and elegant. BTW: Please add a new feature for clearing all entries when using the small menu. Everytime I have to delete every single item in the list. Very annoying if u ask me (Jumpcut has such a feature called "Clear all"). Why is the feature "Always show as plain text" not free? This is very important because sometimes it can be very confusing (formatted text in the small menu looks pretty stupid). This is a feature which should be definitely free. Otherwise: It'S getting better and better - but it'S still not perfect. A sticky bezel window similat to that one of Jumpcut or PopCopy would be outstanding. Just as an additional feature (display options).

NEEDS MORE WORK. I'm running the application on my Intel iMac OS 10.4.8 and I am finding it very useful. I have, however, found some problems with it. I usually have a few pastes to perform at the same time, so I cannot use the "ordinary mode" because, obviously, each time I paste an item I would have to go back to the relevant pasteboard icon in the menu bar and click on it again for the window to reappear. I also cannot use the application in "autoshow window" as I have other application autoshow drawers around my screen. Therefore, the best way for me to use PTHPasteboard is in "always show window" mode. Using the application this way, however, causes a few problems: 1. After completing my paste actions it is impossible to close either the Main or Custom windows by clicking on their red close buttons as they are disabled and their menu bar icons do not hide and then show the windows again. It would be helpful if both these options could be available to the user as when the window is needed for pasting the user would be able to click on the required window menu bar icon and after using it could just click on the red close button. 2. I have my Main window set to display 20 items. If I wish to paste a few consecutive items which are numbered higher than 20, the scroll bar jumps up to the top after each paste. This is a bit of a pain because I need to scroll down each time to search for the next item after each paste. Incidentally, this does not happen in the Custom windows. 3. It would be useful if it were possible to move items (rather than copy) from one Custom window to another, e.g., by using a hotkey whilst dragging the item. 4. If I wish to change the order of items in a Custom window by dragging them, they are not moved but instead are copied to the target location. If I use the application in "ordinary mode" and click on any of the pasteboards menu bar icons, all the windows are toggled instead of just the window relevant to that particular icon. If the developer would fix these problems, then this application would be just perfect.

Great App! The developer is very responsive and helpful. Try this one out and you will quickly realize it's something you can't do without.

please backup your claims with reasons

I just tried running it again (after a restart) and it works fine now. I guess my computer was acting funny. Thanks for the great app.

can't get it to work in tiger

this was a great standby that was broken i think by 10.3, but managed to run it w/ fewer features, though it was a bitch finding a copy on line after it was sold. now that I'm updating to tiger look forward to giving 3.2 a try. welcome back great little app.

I used PTHPasteboard before Panther and then settled on Butler (only for the multiple pasteboards; I use LaunchBar). I'm certainly happy to see that PTH is alive again, but I must mention that PTHPasteboard seems to have a small memory leak, and thus Butler (with other features turned off) has a smaller footprint on system resources.

Wow... Nice to see this back!! It used to be one of my favorite app, but then it was sold to some other company or something like that so I switched to Butler... and I don't think I'll come back to PTH. Great app though...

I searched high and low for this a while back. Links were led to some bloated NOT freeware. Apparently the developer had sold it. Some nice folk from a list sent me a copy eventually. It is good to see it back again, updated to 10.3 is a plus.