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WilcoHordijk
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Aug 29, 2023
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Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac - Copy and paste doesn't work

Hello,

 

The copy and paste functionality doesn't work anymore. It used to work; i have the feeling it stopped working since the last update of Microsoft Remote Desktop.

 

EDIT for clarification: Copy and Paste from remote machine to local machine does not work.

 

I tried:

Setting (Edit PC > Devices & Audio) Clipboard mode to disabled, reconnected a machine and disconnected from the machine.

Setting (Edit PC > Devices & Audio) Clipboard mode to Bidirectional, reconnected a machine.

Setting (Edit PC > Devices & Audio) Clipboard mode to Remove to local only.

Remove Microsoft Remote Desktop and reinstalled it.

Deleted the running proces on target host named rdpclip.exe and restarted rdpclip.exe

 

Machine:

iMac Retina 5k, 27 inch, 2017

 

Software:

macOS Monterey version 12.1

Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac, version 10.9.0.

macOS client

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  • emlynkvcluk's avatar
    emlynkvcluk
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 20, 2024

    Annoyingly the web client in Azure also has the same problem... :sad:

  • sebasruizr's avatar
    sebasruizr
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 10, 2024

    In my case, I found that the problem occurs when I have two RDP connections at the same time, if I only have one active, the clipboard seems to work fine.

     

    Macbook Sonoma 14.5

    Microsoft RDP 10.9.9

     

    Any ideas? I see that the problem has been going on for over a year.

  • Gapacanu's avatar
    Gapacanu
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 30, 2024

    me too...the copy and paste function on my Mac Air M1(2020) 14.5 (Sonoma) does not work, I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop and the Tunnelblick app to connect to my remote desktop at my work, I enabled the copy and paste function from the remote desktop but the app does not move the texts from the virtual machine to my computer, another colleague who has the app but has older versions of Mac if it works. I hope you can solve the problem, thanks. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

  • chrisryu's avatar
    chrisryu
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 23, 2024

    The same issue is occurring in Jump Desktop as well. I think there might be a problem between Mac OS and the RDP protocol.

  • jarleholt's avatar
    jarleholt
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 18, 2024

    I struggle with this every day, many times pr day. It has been the same in multiple versions of Remote Desktop. Now I am using 10.9.6 (2188). The versions seem to make little difference.

    Copy and paste works, for a while, not more than 10 minutes. Then I have to shut down the Remote Desktop app and start it again. I probably do this 50 times pr day. very annoying. 

  • JNyquist's avatar
    JNyquist
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 19, 2024

    Actually, I am currently running Microsoft Remote Desktop client version 10.9.5 (2179) on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro, on Sonoma 4.2.1, and I can't copy & paste between MacBook and remote desktop session, neither way.
    Folder sharing works though, so it's not completely "cut off"...

     

    Edit: I actually discovered that it's not ALL Remote Desktop connections that aren't working.
    I noticed it on a remote Windows 7 machine (I know, it should have been replaced EONS ago, but you know... 🙂
    I tried on another remote machine, Windows 11, and there it actually works... Very strange...