Clipboard monitoring or how does it work
Clipdiary gets registered in the system as clipboard monitor and gets notifications about every change in the clipboard data. In other words, it monitors the clipboard and saves a copy of every copied bit of data to its database.
Just disable monitoring the clipboard and then enable it again. (see the next question).
Clipdiary monitors the clipboard and saves data to the clipboard history only if it is running and the Monitor Clipboard mode is active. You can temporarily disable keeping the history. For example, if you are going to copy some confidential information, just disable the Monitor Clipboard mode in the program menu.
To get notifications about new copied data, Clipdiary gets registered in a special queue of clipboard viewers. Sometimes errors or operations performed by other software may result in a broken queue and no notifications are received. This command makes the program reregister itself in the system in order to fix the problem.
Select the Reconnect to Clipboard menu item if you notice that Clipdiary does not monitor copied data any more. The latest version of the program automatically performs this operation every 10 minutes.
You can use this command to clear the Windows clipboard. This command is not applied to the data that is already captured. If you want to clear the history kept by the program see how to delete all saved data?.
Clipdiary stores saved data in the database file on the hard drive and only the last 5 clips are stored in memory to make it faster to search for dupplicates, thus it is possible to make memory usage as little as possible.
Collected data is compressed before it is saved to the database. So even if you often copy large images, the database will still have a reasonable size. For example, my current database occupies 50MB and contains 10 000 clips - everything I have copied for the last two months.
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For such a simple app, it's sure useful. Don't know how I got along without it for so many years. I mean, seriously. I would never have guessed how handy this would be. Not often I'm this happy with software. Clipdiary doesn't do much, but what it does, it does REALLY well.
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