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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'm out of ideas on this one.

Basically, any time I copy something, a blank entry is added after that. Then I have to open my clipboard to get to what I need instead of the blank entry (can't Ctrl + V, or even right click > paste).

This happens on both of my Win 11 machines, whether I'm using Ditto or the native Windows clipboard. Doesn't matter if I use Ctrl + C, right click > copy, or even right clicking highlighted text in the console.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. TIA

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This is a known problem with Win10 and has been for years. It's related to the clipboard history. Using CTRL+C and CTRL+V instead of right-clicking will drastically reduce the frequency of this problem but it still comes up on occasion and also has trouble when using copy/paste in Excel spreadsheets - either copying and pasting values instead of formulas or treating an xlsm doc as a csv file when pasting. It can be erratic and random about how and when things paste.

I've found that simply using the default copy/paste with clipboard history turned off, then using a 3rd party app for clipboard history is the ideal way to go until MS resolves this...and I don't think they plan to. Maybe in Win 11...

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  • Odd, it just started happening to me in the last month or so after using ditto for the last 5 years, so I thought maybe I had messed up settings at some point..
    – tuxmachina
    Mar 10, 2022 at 22:53
  • I've used Windows 10 since it was beta and never experienced this
    – phuclv
    Mar 11, 2022 at 1:45
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I was blaming the windows clipboard, but today I discovered that my IDEs were causing the problem!

In Rider (and other JetBrains software) the option is called "Don't copy/cut the current line when invoking the Copy or Cut action with no selection" enter image description here

In VScode you can add "editor.emptySelectionClipboard": false, to the settings.json file or disable it from the settings menu: enter image description here

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