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Drag and drop failing to clear drag clipboard on macOS
I had thought to use drag and drop as a slightly safer alternative to copy/paste. I was under the impression that certain coding practices limit the time that credentials remain on the clipboard. I ...
1P_Dave
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ModeratorHello Baz​! 👋
Thank you for reporting this. When dragging and dropping a password from the 1Password app, the copy and paste clipboard isn't used. So that we can look into this further, are you able to share a screen recording showing you viewing the "drag clipboard" while dragging a password from 1Password to another app? This will help me to better understand the situation and reach out to the correct team internally.
If you'd like to avoid posting the screen recording to the public community then please email it to support@1Password.com along with a link to this thread. After emailing in, you'll receive an automated reply with a Support ID that looks something like [#ABC-12345-678]. Post that here, and I'll be able to locate your message.
-Dave
Thanks Dave.
I use "Clipboard Viewer", which is part of "Additional Tools for Xcode 26.4", found at https://developer.apple.com/download/all/.
That viewer has the ability to show 5 different clipboards, selectable from the dropdown in the titlebar. My video clip has the "Drag Clipboard" selected. I did not include a demo of cancelled drags since I did not get consistent results. When recording cancelled drags never cleared the drag clipboard.
The video clip shows drags onto BBEdit first, followed by drags onto Brave browser. Nothing is left on the clipboard after the BBEdit drag. The password is left on the clipboard after the Brave browser drag.
The clip is a 3.7 MB QuickTime screen recording. Is there a way to upload it here to ensure it remains with the conversation, rather than in a temporary Dropbox link?
