I encountered an error trying to process a video.
This lead me to looking at the TZ log files.
I found the following line within this error report.
“Thread: 12360 Warning Retrying to obtain clipboard.”
Now it is rather common that someone most likely have their password there, amongst other personal types of data.
I find this very troubling. Why violate a persons privacy?
What really sets me off, is I checked previous log files and I didn’t find the others delivering this message. Why now am I suddenly being breached?
It’s not uncommon for programs to use the clipboard for their own purposes, like transferring data between processes, and windows has an API to do that.
The clipboard read probably didn’t fail in those previous logs. You only get a warning in the log when something goes wrong.
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Can you send the logs to the support team to help with figuring out what error you are seeing?
As Alan mentioned it is common for apps to use the clipboard when moving data back and forth when running.
Is it?
I’ve never seen a single case where two programs communicate that way. The clipboard is for Human initiated data transfer between programs, not for program to program communication.
The standard way to share information between programs is over a file (mmapped, stdio, a db file or just plain old file) or a socket.
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Yes, it is. Our office app e.g. transfers name/address data via clipboard to the word-document it opens.
And does that even as well for other internal things.
(Which can be annoying as the speech recognition also uses the clipboard and if you’re using the wrong order in opening the word document and ending the speech recognition the spoken text is gone :-/ )
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