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Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly.

Posted by Risky Kisses
Risky Kisses
member, 16 posts
College girl
Book worm
Tue 15 Jul 2014
at 19:06
  • msg #1

Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly

Hiya.

I noticed yesterday that suddenly I cannot copy/paste on rpol anymore.  I've been trying to build a Savage Worlds character sheet up for a new game, and can't load anything onto the game site.

In fact, it doesn't even show the copy/paste feature anymore when I highlight what I want and then right click.  Instead the only things I see are copy image, copy image location, save image as, save image location.

I use Mozilla Firebird as my browser.  Never had any issues with it until I noticed it yesterday.

Anyone else having this happen?  Anyone know the fix?

I can copy/paste other things just fine, and this use to work perfectly well here, but I haven't a clue what I may have changed accidentally to make this start happening.  Any help would be amazing.

Thanks.
Risky
cruinne
moderator, 6445 posts
busy crossing the i's
and dotting the t's
Wed 16 Jul 2014
at 02:43

Re: Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly

It sounds like a stupid question but, hey, I'm full of those :-)  Have you restarted your computer lately?
Genghis the Hutt
member, 2239 posts
Just an average guy :)
Wed 16 Jul 2014
at 03:53
  • msg #3

Re: Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly

For some reason, on my laptop, after about 5 seconds, I cannot copy/paste with Ctrl+C/P or do anything else with keyboard input, unless I click on the page.  It's as though I have some invisible program running on my laptop that keeps taking focus, but the spyware programs I have don't turn anything up.  Anyway, when that happens I just click on the screen then I can copy/paste stuff with keyboard commands for a while.
Skald
moderator, 552 posts
Whatever it is,
I'm against it
Wed 16 Jul 2014
at 13:12
  • msg #4

Re: Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly

Those right click options indicate that focus is on a graphic, rather than on selectable text ?  As GtH says, focus can sometimes wander.

Try selecting some text with the mouse then right clicking and seeing if you get the same menu options.

And of course, the old "load it in another browser and see if that makes a difference" never goes astray. :>
Risky Kisses
member, 17 posts
College girl
Book worm
Sat 19 Jul 2014
at 04:38
  • msg #5

Re: Unable to Copy/Paste suddenly

Thanks all for the help.

No idea what or why, but an hour later it was done being mean to me and was working fine.  *shrugs*
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