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AntonioPerez

Industrial
Aug 6, 2014
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In some specific files I got the error "Copy to clipboard failed" when I try to copy any object, so I cant copy no object to another file. There should be some problema with those files. I cleaned them and audit them but it did't solve the problem.

Any idea?
Thanks.
 
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Solved! by pendean. See the answer in context.

copy/clip creates a dwg file in your Windows log-in temp folder, for which you must have read/write/rename/delete access to for it to work best. Empty it first and see if that helps. Talk to your IT about it all.

Solved! by johngolden. See the answer in context.

Problem was IT.
All working now, I was having to run the AutoCad as Administrator for it too work.
It was to do with the lack of Admin rights that i had and the location that AutoCad wanted to store the temporary files.
 
Thanks felix7502. I tried to run the program as Administrator but nothing changed. It doesn't seem to be related with writing rights. As for the Proxy Objects I searched in my file with Smart select but couldn't find any proxy object. Anyway I explode everything in the file three times, cleaned, audited and saved buy the problem is still there.

Tranks for your help.
 
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