Copy/paste files not working with files "copied" in external applications

[rondonjon]

I am using Xubuntu 14.04. When I "copy" a file in the OS file manager and switch back to atom, atom offers me to "paste" into project folders in the tree view, but this doesn't work. I choose paste, and nothing happens. I am not even getting an error message. Just as if the OS clipboard and the atom clipboard were two completely different things.

[CiaranReen]

This happens with me as well. Mac OS X El Capitan with Atom 1.4.3.

I just lost a load of changes due to the inverse of this as well (copying them from the tree view in atom then going to paste them in the Finder and nothing happening).

[DophinL]

me too

[ljl]

Same happens to me on Atom 1.8.0 on OS X El Capitan

[lvpeng]

me too

[SVITY]

me too

[sarahessex]

Me too, I have the same problem using Atom 1.16.0 on macOS Sierra 10.12.2

[tomanistor]

Same problem here with Atom 1.20.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6. Can't copy and paste images from Finder into a project folder on Atom.

[TheJDexp]

I hope this can be fixed! Would really help workflow... Same issue:

Atom 1.23.2 x64
MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2

*Applies to all files from Finder Clipboard as far as I can tell.

However Drag n Drop from Finder works perfectly fine, so for now I duplicate, drag and rename.

[50Wliu]

It doesn't look like Chrome or Electron supports this yet.

[UziTech]

@50Wliu is there an issue created in electron for this?

[UziTech]

I found a few but they are all closed

electron/electron#11696
electron/electron#2853
electron/electron#2244

[50Wliu]

Unfortunately I forget what I was looking at when deciding that this was blocked, but I believe there aren't any HTML or Electron APIs that recognize externally-copied files.

[magicdawn]

this is realy inconvenient.

I see the tree view use localStorage for internal copy paste.
https://github.com/atom/tree-view/blob/v0.228.1/lib/tree-view.coffee#L710-L711

May be this or some other package can utilize system clipboard public.file-url to do this

[Souleste]

I made a plugin that enables native-like Clipboard operations tree-view-clipboard.

It only supports windows atm, honestly not sure what all versions will work since I don't really develop in .NET or c#.

Hope this helps someone :)