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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_Gem
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ModeratorHi Baz, thanks for letting us know! I can confirm that we've received your email, and one of my colleagues will send you a reply there as soon as possible.
Thanks for letting me know.
When I use copy/paste for credentials, I just hit a button in the menubar that triggers "pbcopy < /dev/null". I prefer that over waiting the 90 seconds for the automatic clear. Unfortunately, that only clears the general clipboard but not the drag one. For now, I've just stopped using drag-and-drop.
I had another issue with drag-and-drop which I've had support for. When a drag is started, the 1Password window intentionally disappears. But, depending on the drop target, it sometimes doesn't reappear after the drop. Perhaps the current issue has the same underlying cause. 1Password might not be receiving the callback from certain applications so that it can execute finalizing behavior. Just a naive idea.
- 1P_Dave
Thank you for that additional information! I see that my colleague replied to your email yesterday, please continue the conversation there.
-Dave
