To do this, pop up Alfred's search box and type "clear" and select the "Clear Alfred's entire clipboard history" option. When this happens, the best solution is to clear your clipboard history, which will rebuild the clipboard.db file. On very rare occasions, it's possible for your clipboard database to become corrupted. The text clips you save are stored in a small database, which Alfred searches when you use the clipboard history search. Due to the way these apps handle copying and pasting, they're incompatible. There are a small number of apps that unfortunately don't play nice with clipboard history These are either Java-based applications or apps run in virtual machines (e.g.
If you find that text clips you copy using Cmd + C don't appear in Alfred's clipboard, check that the application you're copying from isn't in the Ignore Apps list. Ensure that the "Persist for" checkbox is ticked for the appropriate clip types.Īlfred ignores certain applications, like Keychain Access and 1Password, to avoid copying passwords to the clipboard and making them visible in plain text. Before you can start using the Clipboard History feature, you need to enable it by going to the Preferences panel, under Features > Clipboard. Turn on Clipboard Historyīy default the Clipboard is disabled for privacy reasons. Recent versions of macOS can occasionally "forget" the permissions settings and re-granting resolves this issue. Click the lock icon and authenticate, then remove Alfred from the Accessibility preferences, then add him again. If the permissions are already set, try removing and re-granting permissions. Specifically, Alfred requires Accessibility for the Clipboard History feature.
This will pop up the macOS Security & Privacy preferences, where you can give Alfred the necessary permissions to perform actions. Go to Alfred's General preferences, and click the Request Permissions. In order to perform certain actions on your Mac, such as pasting clipboard content, you need to tell macOS that you want Alfred to do this. If you're unable to save text clips or the behaviour isn't as expected, take a look at the steps below. Alfred's Clipboard History is a brilliantly useful feature that allows you to save text snippets to either a temporary clipboard or permanent snippets.
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