Hello, would love anyone’s help. Lately I’ve been having an issue with copy and paste while copying things outside of Anki and pasting into the edit box for making a new Anki card. For example, if I were to copy something like “Johnny” on google and try to paste it to Anki, if ten seconds later for a new card I copy “King” from google and try to paste it into Anki, it will only paste “Johnny” unless I wait like 10 seconds. After that 10 seconds or so it will allow me to paste “King”. So there is some sort of delay that I’m unsure why is happening as it did not happen before and is not happening on my other computer applications. The delay is becoming longer and longer too.
I haven’t heard of this before, but try the Troubleshooting Checklist – start with #2 add-ons and #6 video drivers. If neither of those change anything, try everything else on the list, including the things you don’t think are related.
I tried all of that with no luck
Tell us more about what you tried.
I did all the troubleshooting tips on that website you sent but nothing has seemed to work
Could you please provide specific details about the activities you did? (For example, “I changed setting A from B to C. Then, I peformed action D. And, then I saw behavior E. Etc.”)
Could you also please provide specific details about your configuration? For example, what type of computer, operating system, Anki version, installed add-ons you are using, etc.?
(Your replies so far didn’t provide many of these details that we were expecting.)
My understanding is that clipboard functionality is usually performed at the operating system level? In the example, as soon as “King” is copied to the cilpboard, the previous “Johnny” contents are deleted and forgotten from the clipboard. So, I am not sure how it would be possible for Anki to know, remember, and paste the previous “Johnny” clipboard contents? Theoretically, the described behavior shouldn’t be possible, as I understand it?
It might be interesting to perform some experiments where you:
- immediately, repeatedly paste into Anki, perhaps once every second to see how long it takes for switch to occur from old contents to new contents.
- copy from other applications, other than the web browser, to see if the behavior occurs only when copying from certain appilcations.
- copy and paste within Anki itself (copy something in one Anki field and paste it in another Anki field) to see if the problem behavior occurs in that scenario.
I observe a somewhat similar behavior on my win11 with capturing parts of the screen. If a screenshot is pasted immediately after it is cut, most of the times it pastes the previous one. In that case, repeated pasting doesn’t ever switch to the new content, as it seems to override the attempted writing of the newer screenshot to the buffer. This isn’t Anki-related though, as it happens with any kind of graphic editor. And I also have never observed it with text, so might not be directly connected.
First I tried to open Anki in safe mode which did not fix the copy and paste problem I am having.
Then I changed the video editor from Metal to OpenGL which did not fix the problem. I changed the video driver to Software which did not fix the problem.
Then I restarted Anki which did not fix the problem.
I checked if my Anki version was up to date and it was.
I checked the database and no problems were detected there.
I restarted my computer which also didn’t fix the problem.
I am using a Macos Monterey version 12.7.6. My anki version is 25.09.2 I have uploaded a picture of the add ons I am using.
I have tried that first experiement you were talking about. Sometimes it takes 10 seconds but sometimes it goes up to like a minute before it pastes the new content. If I press paste before it decides to switch, it will just keep pasting “Johnny” until then keeping with our theoretical situation.
On the second experiment, it seems as if the only website it’s having a problem with is content from ChatGPT. So it seems like not an Anki problem. Thanks for your help!
You said that the problem seems to occur with only ChatGPT content. However, I also noticed that you wrote:
It sounds like you did not restart Anki each time after changing the video driver setting. Because restarting Anki is required to have these changes take effect, it ended up that you didn’t actually test the other video drivers. You might want to try this testing again.
Also, I thought of a possible workaround, since you said the problem does not seem to occur when pasting to other apps. If you were to copy from ChatGPT, then paste into a text editor, then copy from the text editor, then paste into Anki, perhaps doing so might allow you to avoid the problem. It’s two extra steps, but if it works then it would allow you to perform the copy/paste faster.