All in the title, I tried many tricks just to copy a text of 120 words/800 characters from a mac note window, or any other app on Mac 15.6 using Flame 2026.0.1 then 2026.0.2, it doesn’t work, while it works anywhere else on Flame, like Note Node, Node Name…etc. The Behavior is really unpredictable,…

I’m on Linux and have yet to experience anything like this. I’ve copied and pasted from email and other web based docs as well as the linux office apps. EDIT: I did a quick test with a very large c/p. It took a long time for the paste to work (10 seconds or so) , but it did.

I don’t have any trouble copy/pasting on mac. I don’t typically do lots of words / paragraphs though. Two ideas: To make sure you are in edit mode and not move mode: create a type layer, type a few characters in it, then paste your big chunk. If it works, go back and delete those first few charact…

Maybe try a different font to start with. Maybe there are weird characters in the text you are copying.

[image] chadi: All in the title, I tried many tricks just to copy a text of 120 words/800 characters from a mac note window, or any other app on Mac 15.6 using Flame 2026.0.1 then 2026.0.2, it doesn’t work, while it works anywhere else on Flame, like Note Node, Node Name…etc. Is the following…

Didn’t we find a similar bug in the beta @fredwarren ?

Thank you all for your comments, I tried all the recommended, I also deleted other languages in case I am switch automatically when using Flame, nothing worked. My OCD was not swallowing this, so I made some trials and I started to understand, but not completely, here are some tests, it would be ni…

[image] chadi: EXT. VILLAGE – EVENING When I copy this text (from your forum post) I can paste into Type but the em-dash isn’t there. So that might be the issue. in between Village and Evening there are three characters (two spaces and an empty character) [Screenshot 2025-08-19 at 9.36.40 …

[image] chadi: I want to copy this: EXT. VILLAGE – EVENING –> this doesn’t work but if I copy : EXT. VILLAGE test EVENING —> the paste works but: “EXT. VILLAGE test EVENING” —> won’t work while: (EXT. VILLAGE test EVENING) —→ works The problem is that the characters – and “ ” are not suppo…

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chadi August 19, 2025, 4:21pm 10

Thank you … good to know

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