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DesignStudio
02-21-2007, 07:08 AM
does anyone know if there is a way to set your clipboard in photoshop to hold more than just your last copied or cut item? so that perhaps you could archive all the items you've copied while a particular file is open and select which one to paste etc?

I ask because a few weeks ago i accidently clicked the wrong window to close and my fingers were faster than my brain and i clicked don't save without double checking which file i was closing. i had only saved once really early on so i pretty much lost everything. (in my defense i had just finished the project and was up for around 24 hours on about 3 hours sleep- i'm pretty sure they call that freelancing) I know the lesson here for the kiddies is to save and save often, and normally i do, but i guess sometimes you have to re-learn lessons every so often so they stick. i can't really complain, i'm a firm believer in "stupid should hurt".

anyway, i'd copied and pasted most of the elements in that file at least once, and i would have been able to create the whole thing very quickly if i could have accessed some sort of archive of things that had been on my clipboard, but i couldn't find a way. i hope i don't need that again for the same reason, but it got me thinking of other instances it might be useful, and i wondered if there is a setting or anything that enables your clipboard to hold more than one item. anyone heard of anything like this?

urstwile
02-21-2007, 07:10 AM
Not knowing what operating system you're on, I know there's third-party software out there that'll let you have multiple clipboards, but to the best of my knowledge, the default for Mac OS Tiger is one item. Not sure what it is for Windows.

DesignStudio
02-21-2007, 07:21 AM
windows? what in the heck are you talking about, i'm asking about computers not windows.

i'm on osx. yeah i know the default is 1 item though, but i'm wondering if there is a way to change the setting on that.

urstwile
02-21-2007, 07:23 AM
Not through the default, but there's shareware that'll let you do it. Butler comes to mind.