Microsoft remote desktop copy paste not working mac

Copy and paste from macbook to remote desktop not working anymore

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  copy text or files from macbook and paste it wherever on remote desktop [or opposite way] is not working anymore.

  it always used to work, even with cmd + c/v, but out of the blue it stoped working without doing an update. i even deleted and reinstalled it but no change. tried with and without clipboard. also cmd c and then ctrl v is not working.

  but not sure if it stoped working after mac cleaner, maybe it deleted too many files..?

  i have os catalina 10.15.4, connected pc is a windows vps 2012.

  i really hope someone can help..

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  Hi,
  
  How things are going there on this issue?
  
  Please let me know if you would like further assistance.
  
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  Eve Wang
  

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  Thursday, June 18, 2020 7:07 AM

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  Hi,

  I have the same issue. RDP4MAC 10.3.12[1801]; MacOS Catalina 10.15.4; Remote client Windows 10 version 1809.

  I've checked the configurations and they're correct. I've quit the app and restarted it but that doesn't help.

  I can't restart my remote machine for now because it's got open sessions that I can't close.

  I didn't notice anything specific; the clipboard suddenly stopped syncing.

  Is there anything else I can try?

  Kr,

  Wim

  Monday, July 6, 2020 11:19 AM

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  Hi Eve,

  After restarting both my macbook and the remote client, the clipboard works again for now.

  I can't use that solution every time though, is it possible to create a 'reset' mechanism for the clipboard? I don't mind running a few commands in terminal or powershell [not sure if I have the correct permissions but I can pass them on to the MS support team].

  Thanks in advance for your help!

  Kr,

  Wim

  Tuesday, July 7, 2020 11:25 AM

Mac remote desktop copy and paste stops working

I've seen this issue for a year or more. Copy and paste will work from my Mac to a RDP session at first then it will stop working and I have to close the rdp session and reconnect for it to start working again.

I see this issue on Intel and M1 Macs.

Is this a known bug?

thanks

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CarlFan-MSFT answered • May 10, '21

Hi,
I met some people who had the same problem.
If this is the reason for the copy paste not to work, the quick solution is to restart the rdpclip.exe program in the remote computer.

Here are the steps:

1.Kill the process rdpclip.exe using the task manager in the remote computer
2.Go to RUN command and start the application rdpclip.exe

I consider that you could update [ such as Remote desktop app].
Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.
Best Regards,
Carl

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KelloggBrianD-0286 answered • May 10, '21

I'm running the latest Mac Remote Desktop client.

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Cut/Paste not working in Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac

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  Sirs,

  I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop V8.05 build 24428 on a Mac under the latest Mavericks OS, and I find that Cut and Paste are not working. When I paste on Remote Desktop Windows always pastes the last thing cut/copied under the Windows remote session, rather than whatever I just cut/copied in another Mac window.

  
  

  I am well aware that the keystrokes are different, and I tried to follow the instructions on another question which indicated that I should select the console session checkbox on Remote Desktop's 'Connection' configuration window. However Remote Desktop no longer seems to have that option ... the topmost line now shows 'Admin Console' and checking it did not help with cut/paste.

  I hope you can tell me how to get this working as cut/paste is a great convenience.

  Thanks

  
  

  Saturday, May 3, 2014 12:36 AM

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  On remore computer run

  Taskkill.exe /im rdpclip.exe
  Rdpclip.exe

  Rgds

  Milos

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  • Unproposed as answer by Larry.Daniele Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:45 AM
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  As of 8.0.8 pasting is still not supported and this is one of the most important features of any remote desktop cient. Even the most primitive VNC clients do support this, as still RDC for Mac is at version 8.0.8 and still does not support pasting text from clipboard, ... I wasn't expecting to paste more complex objects, but just text.

  Basic use case: entering a very secure password!

  Thursday, August 7, 2014 4:55 PM

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  Hi,

  Has there been any update to make the clipboard redirect work yet?

  Thursday, September 3, 2015 1:33 PM

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  Using Mac RDC 2.1.1, this "taskkill" technique worked once, but then stopped working. Doing it over again didn't seem to help.

  Sunday, October 11, 2015 12:47 AM

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  I can confirm what Genfranco reports. Did not work in prior versions, but now appears to be in place. Cmd+C on OSX, Ctrl+V on Windows now works.

  Thursday, December 22, 2016 7:31 PM

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  thank you, kill task rdpclip.exe and relogin worked like a charm!

  Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:45 PM

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  Clipboard redirection _is_ supported in RDP clients since at least 2010. Restarting rdpclip.exe on the remote Windows computer is most likely the solution.

  Friday, July 20, 2018 8:48 AM

Unable to Copy and Paste to and from remote desktop connection on some servers.

Unable to Copy and Paste to and from the remote desktop connections on some servers. None of the file types are working. I tried folder copy, text file copy, word, excel, .exe file copy. none of those work. Interestingly, copy-paste of text to and from works.

Client OS is Windows 10.
Remote Desktop Server OS is Windows server 2016.

Troubleshooting did so far:
1] Killed rdpclip.exe and tested. No luck
2] Rebooted the server and the client. No luck
3] Added rdpclip.exe to exclusions in Antivirus. No luck
4] Removed Antivirus and tested. No luck.
5] Tried local login to the remote desktop server instead of domain login. No luck
6] Verified in the group policy and made sure Do not allow Clipboard redirection and
Do not allow drive redirection are set to not configured.
7] Replaced the rdpclip.exe from a working server. No luck.
8] Compared local security policies [secpol.msc] with a working server and replicated the same settings on the non-working server. Rebooted after that. No luck.
9] Tried disabling all the Group Policies that are pushed through Domain Controller. No luck.

Any suggestions as to what more we can do to identify and fix the issue?

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Jingruihan-MSFT · Jun 07, 2021 at 05:12 AM

Hi, is everything ok？

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SamChaney-4012 · Nov 10, 2021 at 09:55 PM

Akshay, did you ever get this resolved?

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Jingruihan-MSFT answered • May 24, '21 | XiaoWu-9986 commented • Feb 7, '22

Hi, dear

It's highly recommended you use Drive Redirection through Remote Desktop Services if you want to transfer files.

Firstly, run command with Mstsc.exe. When the Remote Desktop Connection window appears, click the Show Options button at the bottom left of the window.
On the Local Resources tab of Remote Desktop Connection, you can specify which kinds of devices and resources that they want to redirect to the remote computer. Now that drives on the local computer can be redirected in the session so that files can easily be transferred between the local computer and the remote computer.

In the meanwhile, you can edit client drive redirection by configuring a Microsoft Remote Desktop Services group policy setting for remote desktops and RDS hosts.
Run command with gpedit.msc. In the Group Policy Editor, go to Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Device and Resource Redirection.

Secondly, you should check the rdpclip.exe on your remote computer with Task Manager to see if it is processing well. Cause Remote Desktop Clipboard is a Windows utility that allows users to manage a shared clipboard between a local host and remote desktop. This application runs on the remote PC and not on your local host.

Run command with taskmgr.exe - Go to the Processes Tab - Select rdpclip.exe - Click End task

Go to the File tab - Click Run new task - Type rdpclip.exe - Click Ok

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IbrahimSadeck-0385 · Sep 15, 2021 at 05:52 AM

restarting rdpclip.exe on the remote server solved my issue

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XiaoWu-9986 IbrahimSadeck-0385 · Feb 07 at 10:57 PM

I ran into the same issue. In Remote Desktop Connection/Show Options/Local Resources tab, uncheck Clipboard; check Clipboard, and re-connect helped resolving the issue.

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Jingruihan-MSFT answered • Jun 2, '21

Hi,

Haven't received your message in a few days, was your issue resolved?

I am proposing previous helpful replies as "Answered". Please feel free to try it and let me know the result. If the reply is helpful, please remember to mark it as an answer which can help other community members who have the same questions and find the helpful reply quickly.

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BrianW-4025 answered • Nov 18, '21

Same problem, Windows 10 client and server is Windows 2019. None of the client or server side methods above solve the problem to reset it.

What causes it to stop working is when I copy a large amount of text across the RDP connection, ie 500-1000+ rows [exact number not yet determined]. The clipboard stills functions on client/server independently but no longer across the connection.

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64193216 answered • Dec 13, '21 | con7ept-3351 commented • 4 days ago

Anyone got a resolution to this?

I've got the exact same problem as Akshay, tried the same things to no avail.
Can even copy text to / from the server but no files.

For reference this issue is only happening on my session hosts - other RDS server that has connection broker / session host on it doesn't have this issue.
Issue persists when connecting to the problem session host via connection broker and directly with 'mstsc.exe /admin'.

Further investigation appreciated @Jingruihan-MSFT

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con7ept-3351 · 4 days ago

Did you make any headway on this? I believe our symptoms are the same on Windows 10 Multisession 20H2 session host.

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rsn71-3944 answered • Feb 11, '22

I am having this issue and have tried everything in this post - the RDC already had Clipboard checked. I have rebooted the server, the laptop that I am using RDP on. Still unable to copy and p paste from the Event Viewer. I can't even copy and paste to Notepad on the same server with NO RDP.

This is ridiculous - with a Mac you can copy and past from any dialog box that pops up. Why on earth desert Microsoft allow this on all their products and OS? Makes life so much easier and saves a ton of time for the administrator.

Microsoft needs to think about how their customer use the event viewer log.

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