Copy field problem

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 05:40:19 EDT 2010


On 08/31/2010 12:37 PM, Alex Shaw wrote:
> Hi Jan
>
> Yes, that worked for me too.
>
> Fortunately, as a workaround, having 'sharedText' active for that 
> particular field isn't going to cause any problems in this instance 
> but I still think it's a bug of sorts with the 'copy' command.
>
> Using the copy field to stack command does not work for that strange 
> stack (is it corrupted?) but if you just copy the field to the 
> clipboard then paste to destination it does work as expected!
>
> ie. from the message box..
>
> Instead of..
> copy fld 1 of card 1 of stack "teststack" to card 1 of stack "Untitled 1"

Why do I have a queer feeling that it might not be a bad idea to name 
and save the target stack prior to
any copying?
>
> This works..
> copy fld 1 of card 1 of stack "teststack"
> create stack "new"
> paste
>
> hmm.. strange
>
> regards
> alex
>




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