[RESOLVED] Cut and Paste not pasting

[bistro]

Not a showstopper, but lately I have been cutting and pasting a lot of images from Google Images into a folder to associate with my movie files. The procedure has been to look up the image, then select "See full size image", then copy and paste into the folder on my drive.

It worked great last night, but today I have been trying and it doesn't work any more. I can copy the image off Google, but when I get to the folder the Paste option is grayed out. I noticed that all my directories on the drive are READ ONLY, but from what I understand that is normal for Vista....turning off the read only attribute does not work and the next time you click on it, it is back to read only. I also checked my permissions and they are all set for full control. Trojan, virus check and spyware check are clean. I can SAVE AS with no problem, but the C&P feature is a lot easier.

Any clues as to why the c&p feature would suddenly not work any more?

EDIT: Just now noticed that it will not copy an image into Paint any more either. NOW this is bothering me....

[SuperSparks]

I think you broke something I would try a Sys Restore and hope that fixes it.

[bistro]

Well, I just messed around and around and around and suddenly the copy/paste feature came back on. I haven't the foggiest if it was something I did or the machine just made up its mind to bring it back. The system must have been trapped on the edge of a cyber wormhole in a perpetual non copy-paste depermuatational dimension when suddenly the reactuation decycler caught up with tripermathuim crystal matrix, causing it to finally engage in a recoupling of the massatronic nucleoflux.

(Hey...that's a better reason than what Microsoft offers!)

[Welshjim]

bistro--Did you reboot? That will often cure OS quirks.

[SpywareDr]

I agree. More often than not, rebooting forces the reactuation decycler to catch up with tripermathuim crystal matrix, causing it to immediately engage in a recoupling of the massatronic nucleoflux.

[K G G]

SpywareDr - posting at Today, 04:33 AM seems to have had some effects ey
I got dizzy from flipping my dictionary pages on that one...

[bistro]

bistro--Did you reboot?

Hmmmm....seems that I recall that was the question Kirk asked in Episode 18 when Scotty told him the warp engines were not working correctly....

Yep, I rebooted a couple of times to no effect...that was the weird part. So far though, the problem has not reoccurrred...reachurred....reaccchurred....come back.

[SpywareDr]

Excellent.

So, what you're saying then is in order to avoid the non-CPDD (copy-paste depermuatational dimension) requires: 1) the RD (reactuation decycler) to perpetually be precisely aligned with the TPM (tripermathuim crystal matrix), a-n-d, 2) the Mt (massatronic) Nf (nucleoflux) must forever stay recoupled:

CPDD

RD=TPM+MtNf

non-CPDD

RD<>TPM+MtNf
RD=TPM+Mt
RD=TPM+Nf

[bistro]

Yes....that's it....simple as pi, huh?

[SpywareDr]

Absolutely.