-----Original Message-----
James
The default file extension is .clp. The default save location for the files
is My Documents.
In this case, Clipboard+ (my third-party clipboard
manager)is somehow accessing old clipboard save files,
one of which is corrupted and crashes the program. I had
been assuming that these third-party clipboard manager
programs must somehow access these files somewhere.
Perhaps these third-party clipboard managers create their
own directory or something, but it just acted like the
new clipboard files somehow pushed the old ones
backwards, sort of stacked on top of each other -- but
with a way to still access them that the third-party
clipboard managers exploited.
In other words, the direct link to the Clipboard via the
Windows viewer might be gone, but the image itself might
still be accessable to the third-party viewer because it
contains a way to locate it.
I guess I am asking if anyone here knows how these third-
party viewers work with Windows to be able to store
multiple clips. Where do they put them, or are they
accessing them within Windows by knowing where Windows
stashes the older images?
My question is whether Windows completely overwrites the
clipboard each time, or simply creates a new image with a
unique file extension -- and then doesn't itself link to
the old ones, which may still be found under some
different extension.
I may be way off base, but I jsut want to make sure that
clipboard really does wipe the old files, not just
relabel them.
Windows' passion for creating .tmp and other backup files
is one factor leading me to wonder is overwritten
clipboard files might still be lurking somewhere in it
file structure, even if it doesn't pull them up with the
clipboard utility.
I know this is not asking the question well, but this
silly program is pulling up the old clipboard contents
from somewhere and I need to find it to purge the
corrupted file that is crashing it.
The old Clipboard+ program is tiny, if anyone wants to
take a look at it. It is an old Windows 95 piece of
freeware that worked all the way up the Windows chain
until just recently when it choked on a corrupted file.
It loads stored clips until it hits this one garbled
piece of text, then locks up.
This is a really a neat little utility, so I am hoping to
get it to work again. Reloading it didn't fix it, as it
still accesses the same corrupted file and crashes.
I would contact the author/vendor, but a previous attempt
to do so (to tell them the program was wonderful) failed
to turn them up.
