Cut, Copy and Paste commands don't work

I am unable to use cut, copy and paste commands either by keyboard shortcuts or using the menu commands. This only happens in one account on the iBook, but not the other. Any suggestions?
iBook G3 Mac OS X (10.3.8)

Try removing the finder preference.
You will find it in
Users/thenameoftheproblemuser/library/preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Drag the file to the desktop, log out and log back in. See if
it works now.

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Hi jdavis33811,
Have you tried all three methods of cutting and pasting? Using the keyboard shortcuts CRTL-X and CTRL-V, right click the file and selecting cut and then using the file explorer ribbon / File menu.
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I am not an expert on this but I can tell you how I would
start to approach this task.
First, create menu commands for cut copy and paste, and
map short-cut keys to them.
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methods defined on WindowSystem (p. 545 in Display Library
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Thank you for your quick answer.
I store the node in a DefaultMutableTreeNode variable, and assign it to another DefaultMutableTreeNode variable. I set up two classes (CopyNode and PasteNode). Here they are as follows:
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import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
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String treeNodeName;
TreePath currentSelection;
DefaultMutableTreeNode currentNode;
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
public class PasteNode extends DefaultMutableTreeNode{
private TreeList jtree;
CopyNode copyNode;
public PasteNode(TreeList t){
jtree = t;
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DefaultMutableTreeNode parentNode = null;
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Can you figour out what is wrong in my two classes? If you have sample code, would you mind mail me for reference.
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