{"id":229,"date":"2015-06-15T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=229"},"modified":"2022-11-14T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T09:05:42","slug":"how-to-clear-the-clipboard-on-an-imac-osx","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-clear-the-clipboard-on-an-imac-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clear the Clipboard on an iMac OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may find that your clipboard on your iMac is doing strange things. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how to clear your OSX clipboard and reset it back to empty. \u00a0This has been confirmed to work on Leopard through to Yosemite. \u00a0Later versions it may still work (or not).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit &#8211; This applies to any Mac running OSX and is not limited to the iMac<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Step 1<\/h2>\n<p>Open up a Terminal Window<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Open-Terminal-OSX.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-230\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Open-Terminal-OSX.png\" alt=\"Open-Terminal-OSX\" width=\"802\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2<\/h2>\n<p>Type in the following Command and press return<\/p>\n<p><code>echo -n '' | pbcopy<\/code><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3<\/h2>\n<p>Test by pasting somewhere (nothing should be pasted)<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you may find that your clipboard on your iMac is doing strange things. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how to clear your OSX clipboard and reset it back to empty. \u00a0This has been confirmed to work on Leopard through to Yosemite. \u00a0Later versions it may still work (or not). Edit &#8211; This applies to any Mac running OSX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[173,546,172,174],"class_list":["post-229","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-clear-clipboard","article-tag-clear-clipboard-mac","article-tag-clear-clipboard-osx","article-tag-empty-clipboard"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":14,"sum_votes":57},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}