Tell application 'System Events' to keystroke 'x' using command down' No, according to the client AppleScript works worse. So does it work if you simulate a Command-X keystroke in Keyboard Maestro or AppleScript? There’s a bunch of medical software that is standard with my other client’s. There is no clipboard monitoring app besides Keyboard Maestro AFAICS. a clipboard manager, or even things that at first glance seem completely unrelated.) Maybe she has installed some background applications that are interfering somehow? (E.g. How would you go about debugging this error? Are there any logs I can send for analysis? The only things that’s different from my usual configuration is OS X 10.9 (usually it’s 10.11 nowadays). I am certain that the client did not mess with the settings.

When I left the client, there was no unusual behavior. There are no unusual apps on the Mac that I can see. When I cut and paste by hand (Cmd-X - Cmd-V) there are no issues whatsoever.

Instead of moving Word to front, it makes it disappear.

Instead of pasting the latest text, it sometimes pastes the previous clipboard.

The macro is unreliable and therefore useless. It always works flawlessly.īut not for this client on her 2 Macs. It’s a standard macro that I have used with other clients all the time. I have Keyboard Maestro 6.4.8 with 10.9 where I use a standard cut-and-paste macro (takes text from a Fusion VM and pastes it into applications depending on user choice).

Mac paste shortcut disappeared