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I am facing a weird issue with Mac version of Android Studio (i.e., I am not able to copy (⌘ + C) and paste (⌘ + V) any text). I have no idea why it is behaving strange like this. My question may be silly, but I have been facing this issue since I started working from Windows to Mac. Any solutions and alternatives would be much helpful for me. I am completely stuck with this issue for the past two days.

Zoe
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There are several reasons why you could be experiencing this

  • You are using ClipMenu and Android studio doesn't like it
  • Your keybinding is messed up.

To solve keybinding issue press File -> Settings and check what the keybindings are, you have maybe changed it or imported settings from somebody else. See the image as a reference.

Note: the filter of copy, you need to do this for paste too.

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To fix the issue with ClipMenu.

  • Right click on "Application/IntelliJ IDEA 14.app"
  • choose "Show Package Contents"
  • edit bin/idea.properties
  • add this property ide.mac.useNativeClipboard=True
  • restart IntelliJ IDEA.

There is a YouTrack issue with further information

Bojan Kseneman
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this worked for me

go to file menu and click on invalidate Caches/Restart ,after this confirm the dialog open .

Vivek Pratap Singh
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Go to File-> Setting->Editor(Under IDE Settings)->Change value of maximum number of contents to keep in clipboard to 1(Under Limits section)

Arvind Bhardwaj
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I have this issue due to PopClip I have to disable it to get the keyboard shortcuts working.

Leon
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Check that your keymaps aren't messed up. Go to Android Studio > Preferences > Keymap > Main Menu > Edit. If copy and paste are set correctly there, then it must be something else in your system that's stopping it

Tulsi Leathers
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  • keymaps are displaying correct. I guess problem should be as like what you said. But i couldn't trigger it out :-( – Chandru May 20 '15 at 16:33
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I got this bug with my ClipMenu (on Mac) while set useNativeClipboard=true.

I solved the problem by using ClipMenu to paste file into Android Studio (show menu of ClipMenu, then select item)

Tuan Chau
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In my case, the Ctrl c is occupied by other programs(my case is "Oulu Dictionary" program).

Try to check if other programs have global shortcut keys.

djzhao
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disable the plugin Ideavm if installed under settings>plugins>installed.

Rameolic
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