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For example, my friend inside game want to give me some link of video to look at youtube. I will need to copy that link from in-game chat log into my browser. However, most of the time I can only copy and paste that link inside game chat log, and it seem to not allow me to let me paste it outside.
Then, there is some case when I could do that. So I m not sure what trigger this, any in setting?
Sorry but I have not encountered this problem at all. I can hold right click and drag over the desired chat words to highlight them, then ctrl C to copy and then ctrl V to paste into a wordpad, web search etc. Never had a time when it didn't work.
Some of my friend says he can't make it to work too. but in his case, he never make it work at all.
I m wondering if this related to any setting on the config, or it is issue about window 8 and some setting.
Glad I'm not alone on this. Can anyone figure out how to fix this?
I had this problem once. First everything worked fine and one day I couldn't copy text from game to outside. A couple of days later when I tried again it had started working. No idea if I did anything myself to make it work again.
I'm not sure how to help you guy.. Never had issues here, other than that I noticed you cant copy and paste if there's more than one paragraph, just one paragraph you can paste.
In the case with people who have this issue. it doesn't matter whether it is one paragraph or not. Simply the game just not allow you to copy paste message to any outside source.. I don't know how to fix this, but I noticed I sometimes can.
some1 told me to copy ingame text to a notepad then onto the website, etc. troublesome, but works.
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This work!!
It is not a fix, but it is good for temporary til anyone who know the config part can tell us. Thank!
Hmm, I know this is a bit of a necro. But I, for some reason, can't copy/paste anything from the chatlog. I can copy a link from my browser same as usual, but the game does not let me paste it into the chat. Is there something I'm missing? I haven't been able to do this since I started playing and I have no idea why when other people seem to be able to do it no problem.
I experienced this few times in Firefox, but when I switch to chrome it seems working every time.
If you are using Firefox as well, try some other browser or text editor, I think it's more like a Firefox bug...
I've noticed this a couple times, sometimes it works normally, sometimes it does not. I think it may have something to do with the fact I'm playing on PC, but using gamepad controls, not sure if yall are too or not.
I have realized I have this problem today and the notepad method works for me also
For me this issue specifically happens if I copy something from outside of the game, until I restart the game. If I copy from outside of the game, I can paste it but that's it, I can't copy from in the game anymore.
Nice necro. I guess I'll share my fix for you guys. If you have any text saved to your windows clipboard outside of game, ANY text at all, it will prevent copying text from FFXIV completely. The best and only workaround is to remove the saved text from your windows clipboard. How you ask? Well it's simple. Just open an image in a new tab in your browser, right click it and select Copy Image. Make sure you are not clicking Copy Image Location. Once an image is copied to the windows clipboard it overwrites any text that was previously saved with that image file, thus freeing up the text spot on the clipboard. While the image is copied go back into game and copy whatever text you want and past it anywhere outside of game.
Some extra tips:
1. Copying text from FFXIV does not take up the text spot within windows keyboard.
2. As long as you keep that image saved into the clipboard you can freely copy and paste from FFXIV to any other program.
3. The second you copy any text from outside of FFXIV, the text spot will be taken and you will have to repeat the process of copying an image from your browser to remove it.
4. I highly recommend choosing from one of these two images to leave open in your browser at all times to copy when the need arises.
http://puu.sh/5O9Pj
http://puu.sh/51yK5
The quickest way to clear the text is just to press print screen, that should put a screenshot into the clipboard removing any and all text that was there before.
Thanks for the advice that works perfectly, and images.
Make sure that nothing is macroed with "C" "Ctrl+C" "V" "Ctrl+V"