I can't copy & paste anymore.  Can't delete text in clipboard.

Hi, does anyone know why I can no longer paste anything anywhere. I can highlight things and they appear to copy but when I get the drop down menu in edit the paste option does not turn bold only the "select all" option goes bold. Can't do it with keyboard shortcuts either. I seem to have a bit of old text stored in a clipboard, could this be the root of the problem ?
Help !

Hi Susannah, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Have you tried creating a new account and see how yourcopy/paste works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.)
Open System Preferences > Accounts > "+" make it an admin account.
If this works, then log back into your problem account and navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]

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