I’m trying to copy from one project to another on a Mac using the standard keyboard shortcuts as per the support documentation and video but I get ‘Couldn’t read native clipboard data’ or ‘The clipboard is empty’.
It’s the same regardless of what browser I use and I have double checked that there are no custom keyboard shortcuts that could be overriding.
Does this feature no longer work or am I missing something?
I would be very grateful for any suggestions!
What happens if you use the contextual menu in the designer and select copy then in the other project use the menu again to select paste?
The paste option is greyed out.
It’s even greyed out if I try to paste it within the same project.
You may be pasting on somewhere not suppose to fit a certain element.
And yes, the paste is grey out, but that does not affect pasting.
Thank you. I did think that but I believe I have tried just about every possible place to paste.
It’s also greyed out from the browser’s edit menu.
If everyone else can do it then I must be doing something wrong!
I have the same issue every once in a while. Like right now.
Copy/pasting works and all of a sudden it just stops working and says clipboard empty or Couldn’t read native clipboard data.
There is no difference between my actions when it works and doesn’t work.
Problems like these can take a huge chunk of my time allocated to a certain project.
did you ever find out why brother ?
I am having the same issue. The Webflow University makes it look easy. Yet I get the message ‘the clipboard is empty’
I am using macOS Sonoma 14.1 (23B2073). I have also done the suggested checks, Mac restart with no change. Surprised this is still an issue 3 years on. I keep coming across issues like this which is making me rethink using Webflow.
Possible Solution
Downloaded Chrome which had its own issues of signing me out every time I wanted to load Webflow in another tab and would switch to editor, instead of designer whenever I loaded two projects. But finally copied and pasted a CMS element over to another website project. However, this is not a solution as I do not like Chrome and do not want to use it. So, Webflow please sort this issue, or speak to Apple/Safari team on how to get it fixed.
Same story here. Copy/paste elements between projects does not work in Safari. “Clipboard is empty” is still there. It actually slows down my work because I am unable to copy similar elements from one project to another and have to completely recreate them, including interactions…
Same problem here using both Firefox and Safari. The component is in the clipboard ({“type”:“@webflow/XscpData”,“payload”:{“nodes”:…) but Webflow doesn’t allow its pasting and says “The Clipboard is empty.”
Yup, same issue here
Had the same issue I think you need to use the same browser I used firefox and it’s working just fine
Safari was a no go for me. Chrome worked just fine tho.