So, earlier today, in lieu of real work, I went snooping on my computer to try and find out why a bunch of text clippings I had from before my exciting File Vault failure had lost all their contents.
While I still haven't found the answer to the problem at hand, I did discover something very useful while poking around in Finder. I figured out how to copy and paste from text clippings!
It turns out that this problem, which has been bugging me at a low level for years, has already been solved all over the place. However, it still made me happy, so I'm sharing:
(On OS X 10.4.9)
- cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ClipWindow.nib - Open objects.xib
- Change the line
<boolean name="noSelection">TRUE</boolean>
to read:
<boolean name="noSelection">FALSE</boolean>
