I agree, that's the way it should work and also the way it used to work. It doesn't now, which is the problem. Ctrl/C in Windows and then CTRL/V in Windows does do the copy/paste correctly, so it appears that it's OK in Windows - the problem is getting the clipboard data over to OSX (using a Cmd/V to paste in OSX). Easily copy and paste and drag and drop formatted text and images between Windows and Mac. Just 3 steps and a fresh copy of Windows is installed on your Mac. Use a wide variety of 3D design programs and games with full DirectX 9.0c/9Ex and Shader Model 3 support. Use administrator tools to protect and secure virtual machines. Whether you need to run Windows programs that don’t have Mac versions, or you are making the switch from PC to Mac and need to transfer your data, Parallels Desktop has you covered. Seamless Use Windows side-by-side with macOS (no restarting required) on your MacBook ®, MacBook Pro, iMac ®, iMac Pro, Mac mini ® or Mac Pro ®. I cannot copy and paste within Windows or from Windows to Mac and vice versa. Copying/pasting is working when Parallels Tools are uninstalled or disabled in Windows services. 3rd party antivirus or clipboard manager on Mac or Windows side is blocking the access to Parallels Desktop Shared Clipboard feature. But in the Share Windows section, I have checked Access Windows Folders from Mac. If I uncheck it, I get a message saying that I can't copy and paste files between the Windows environment and my Mac, so I've kept it checked. I share folders on VMWare. Copy / paste and folder share. Not sure about Parallels.
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Dedication: The clipboard is the unifying concept behind cut, copy, and paste. The individual responsible for cut, copy, and paste, Larry Tesler, passed away this month. Larry wrote the preface to my book, Object-Oriented Programming for the Macintosh, and was the person who hired me at Apple so many, many years ago. The computing world lost an important pioneer, and this blog post is dedicated to his memory. You can read more about Larry in The New York Times and the Washington Post.
When it was first released in 1984, one of the defining features of the Macintosh user interface was the clipboard. The clipboard was great! You could copy any kind of data to it and then later paste that data into a new location. You could put text, graphics and entire documents or folders on the clipboard. Later on, you could put video clips, equations, spreadsheets and more on it. While the Mac was not the first computer with a clipboard—the Apple Lisa also had one—the Mac made the clipboard a widely known user interface (UI) concept.
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There were, however, a couple of issues with the Mac clipboard. First, it only stored one piece of information at a time. Copy something else to the clipboard, and whatever was there before got removed. Second, it was invisible. The only way you could see what was on the clipboard was to paste the clipboard’s contents into a document. Lastly, the clipboard worked great on a single Mac, but there wasn’t any way to get the clipboard information to another Mac. Over the years, a variety of apps and extensions have tried to solve these issues, but none really caught on because none were as simple to use as the clipboard itself.
The Parallels engineers decided to solve these issues—the result is the new Clipboard History tool in Parallels® Toolbox for Mac. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use this new tool. If you’re like me, you’ll find it so useful that you’ll set it to start up whenever you turn on your Mac.
The Clipboard History tool is one of forty tools in Parallels Toolbox for Mac (see Figure 1).
When running, it has a separate icon in the Mac menu bar—and when it’s open, its window shows you items that have been placed on the clipboard. (Figure 2)
Video 1 (3 minutes) introduces the Clipboard History tool and shows its use on a single Mac:
Video 2 (1 minute 30 seconds) shows how Apple’s Handoff works with the Clipboard History tool on two Mac devices.
Even though there is no Parallels Toolbox for the iPad, the Clipboard History tool can work with an iPad on the same network as your Mac. Video 3 (1 minute 30 seconds) shows an example of this:
I hope these examples show you the power of Parallels Toolbox. If you’re a subscriber of a recent version of Parallels Desktop™ for Mac, Parallels Toolbox is available to you at no charge. If you don’t have Parallels Desktop, you can download a free 7-day trial of Parallels Toolbox.