Finding the contents of your clipboard isn’t at obvious as it should be on macOS in 2018. And even when you find it, the clipboard in macOS can only store the last thing you copied – it doesn’t store the history of your clipboard activity.
But what’s really needed is multiple clipboards at the system level, and it’s no credit to Apple that the clipboard of 2003 is so much like that of 1984. The situation is particularly surprising in view of the fact that Mac OS X’s clipboard underpinnings are considerably more sophisticated than in previous systems. JumpCut is a free clipboard manager. It was one of the first apps I installed when I made the switch from PC to Mac 5 years ago. It's lived in my menu bar ever since, outliving all kinds of snazzy high-tech clipboard managers (like Copied). When they crashed and slowed me down, JumpCut, AKA Ol' Faithful, was there like a loyal and unflinching.
This isn’t very useful especially if you’re doing desktop publishing on a Mac and need to cut and paste regularly.
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Here’s how to view the clipboard history on Mac and also enhance your clipboard to retrieve the entire copy and paste history of your clipboard cuttings in macOS Sierra and High Sierra.
- To view the clipboard on a Mac, in Finder go to Edit in the Menu Bar and select Show Clipboard.
- You’ll then see a pop-up window with the Clipboard and it’s contents.
However, this is the default clipboard included for free in macOS and it’s very limited. It can only store one cutting at a time and as soon as you cut and paste a new item, it will delete the old one.
With a simply clipboard utility though, you can view your entire clipboard history on your Mac and much more. Here’s how to supercharge your Mac clipboard to make it far more useful.
Download Paste 2 from the Mac App Store. Paste 2 is a simple utility that stores an unlimited history of your clipboard contents. Even better, Paste 2 can copy and store not just text but rich text, images, files and many more things that the default clipboard in macOS can’t do.
You can even sync Paste 2 with iCloud so that you can access your clipboard across other devices such as iPhone and iPad. Paste is much easier to access too as you can open it with the keyboard shortcut of your choice. You can use ⇧ Shift⌘ Cmd V by default to reveal the Paste clipboard but you can change this to whatever combination or keys you want.
One feature we particularly like in Paste is that you can search your clipboard for text or items which is very useful the more the contents of your clipboard increases.
There’s no limit to the number of items you can copy and paste into Paste but you can manually delete items that you don’t want stored in the history. You can also instruct it to ignore cut and paste from specific applications such as password managers.Paste is a simple but essential tool for anyone that regularly cuts and pastes on Mac. There are several other utilities to enhance the Mac clipboard but Paste is easily the best clipboard manager for Mac we’ve used. Once you start using it, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
If you have any problems or questions accessing the clipboard on your Mac, let us know in the comments below.
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If you have more than one Mac you want to upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina but don't want to waste so much bandwidth downloading it for each machine, one option is to create a bootable installer on a spare USB flash drive. Here's how to do it with the Terminal.
One of the problems with the release of a major operating system update like macOS Catalina is the amount of times it has to be downloaded. As Apple usually intends each Mac or MacBook needing to be updated to download it, the process isn't really efficient enough for instances where many Mac desktops need the upgrade, like in a school or business if there isn't device management or macOS Content Caching for whatever the reason.
The strain could also be felt by users who own multiple Macs but also have a limited data allowance from their Internet provider, or a small amount of bandwidth that could make updating multiple machines take a very long time and saturate the available connection.
While in the olden days it was possible to get the software update on physical media, Apple doesn't offer that option anymore. However, it is still possible to create your own media, such as a spare USB thumb drive, that can do the same job.
The first hurdle is to actually get the macOS Catalina installer onto a Mac. This is an unavoidable part of the process and will require just over 8 gigabytes of drive capacity to store.
Go to the Mac App Store and search for Catalina using the search bar, then click on View next to the macOS Catalina listing. Alternately, open the Mac App Store Preview page for macOS Catalina here then select View in Mac App Store.
Click on Get. This will load up the Software Update utility, which will ask if you want to download macOS Catalina. Click Download.
After the download has finished, macOS will automatically start the installer. Press Command-Q to quit the installer before it continues, as the update will be deleted upon installation.
Creating the Bootable Drive
You need an external drive to turn into a bootable version, and since it needs to be portable, your best choice is a USB thumb drive with a capacity of 16GB or more. Be aware that the drive will be wiped as part of the process, so ensure there isn't any precious data on the drive that could be lost if it isn't backed up elsewhere.
Connect the external drive to your Mac, and make a note of the external drive's name as it appears within macOS. This is important, as using the wrong name could lead to another connected drive being wiped by mistake.
Open Terminal within the Utilities folder within the Applications folder and enter in the following command by copying and pasting it directly into the window. Make sure to change the element titled 'USBdrive' for the name of the drive you intend to become the bootable installer.
sudo /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia — volume /Volumes/USBdrive — /Applications/Install macOS Catalina.app
Once pasted and corrected, press enter, then enter your password for macOS and press enter again.
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Terminal will then warn of the USB drive being wiped as part of the process. Type 'Y' and press enter. Leave the Mac alone as it formats and copies over the installer.
Once Terminal says 'Install media now available,' it is safe to right-click the removable drive on the desktop renamed 'Install macOS Catalina' and select the 'Eject' command. It is now safe to remove the drive from the Mac.
Upgrading another Mac
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Before proceeding, ensure there are adequate backups available for the Mac you are about to upgrade before the process starts.
With the target Mac you want to upgrade turned off, connect your external drive. When turning on the Mac, hold down the Option key on the connected keyboard to bring up the Startup Manager.
The Startup Manager is used to boot from a different drive from the default. In this case, select 'Install macOS Catalina.'
The Mac will then bring up a macOS Utilities window. To perform a straight update, select 'Install macOS' and follow the prompts.
The macOS Utilities menu also allows you to erase the Mac's drive, which you can optionally do if you do not wish to save any of the data and want a completely clean slate for the installation.
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