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Doesn't save entries

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Describe the bug

When I copy text it isn’t saved into the clipboard history.

How To Reproduce

Versions

GNOME Shell 40.5 GCH Version: 15 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history next-entry @as [] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history disable-down-arrow true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history history-size 50 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history cache-size 100 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history confirm-clear true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history strip-text true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history display-mode 0 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history topbar-preview-size 10 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history clear-history @as [] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history private-mode false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history cache-only-favorites false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history process-primary-selection false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history paste-on-selection false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history notify-on-copy false org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history toggle-menu [‘<Super><Shift>V’] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history move-item-first true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history window-width-percentage 33 org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history enable-keybindings true org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history toggle-private-mode [‘<Super><Shift>P’] org.gnome.shell.extensions.clipboard-history prev-entry @as []

Steps to repro

Select and copy text. Open the extension menu and verify the copied text is missing.

Additional context (if a crash, provide stack trace)

Add any other context about the problem here.

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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gjmcommented, Apr 20, 2022

@SUPERCILEX unfortunately I can’t share my history file…

I removed the file, as you suggested, and it works again.

As far as I’m concerned this issue can be closed. I’m not closing it myself because you may want to use it for some follow up work.

Thanks a lot for your help!

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SUPERCILEXcommented, May 20, 2022

Hey, thanks for investigating! Presumably you’re looking at stuff through a text editor which isn’t going to be useful since the database is a binary format. I just added a tool to dump the db metadata. Can you run it and share the output? It should pinpoint where things went wrong:

$ git clone git@github.com:SUPERCILEX/gnome-clipboard-history.git
$ cd gnome-clipboard-history/tools
# If you don't have rust installed:
$ curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
$ cargo r -- dump > dump.txt
# Run this instead if you moved the database somewhere else:
$ cargo r -- dump path/to/db > dump.txt

Upload dump.txt. Also, it will probably fail since the db is corrupted so sharing the dump crash would also be helpful.