Cannot copy and paste table

Steps to reproduce

  1. Copy any text.
  2. Highlight the table and copy the entire table.
  3. Paste the copied value.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

Expected that a new table with the same value as copied.

Actual result

The copied value is not the table but the previous copied values.
Also, when Undo, the table is formatted incorrectly, and must be Undo again for correction.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SpYGWUbD2GcQULmux6IFJW598lTKTFNc/view?usp=sharing

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.6.3
	Installer version: v1.6.2
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.5.0: Wed May  1 20:12:58 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.121.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 23.5.0
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: none
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none
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I have the same problem.

Except the Undo part.

I just can’t copy nor cut tables. Not using Ctrl+C, nor using mouse.
The table may be empty, or have text, or numbers, or [] links to other files. It’s useless, and it was working perfectly fine today, until it decided to not work anymore. And then, some times at randmon, it gets fixed for a few seconds and it lets me copy & cut again.

I even tried restarting Obsidian, and it did not work.

I have found more peculiarities.

If I highlight a table by clicking and dragging from left to right, copying and cutting doesn’t work. On the other hand, dragging from right to left does allow me co copy and cut.

Highlighting by clicking a cell, then holding shift, then clicking another cell doesn’t allow me to copy and cut, regardless of the direction.

I can’t reproduce this problem. Can you please post a screen recording of this happening in the sandbox vault?

Good evening. In the Sandbox vault everything works good, no issues there. I have just recorded a video showing all my problems in my regular vault:

I don’t know how to generate a system info report like the one above, so I’ll copypaste and edit.

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.7
Installer version: No idea
Operating system: Windows 11, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605
Login status: logged off
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: I don’t know what is this
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: Community plugins not turned on

If this doesn’t happen in the sandbox vault, you should try the steps in troubleshooting guide and try to identify which third party plugin is causing this.

I never turned Community Plugins on.

I don’t know how those can help me, and I have no need for plugins yet.

do you have snippets or themes enabled? where is your vault stored?

do you have snippets or themes enabled?

No, I already said this under the video I posted earlier.

My vault is in an external SSD, connected through an USB-C cable.

This has not caused me any problem until 2 days ago, when I was happily copying tables, ad suddenly I wasn’t allowed to copy tables regularly. The video I shared earlier shows the current troublesome behavior.

Does it happen if you copy your vault in your on your computer?

This made things even weirder, but better, kinda. Now I can copy and cut when clicking and dragging from left to right.

I still can’t do that when clicking a cell, holding shift, and clicking another cell.

The downside is that I can’t keep sensitive data on my C drive. It’s faulty.

what is the output of the command show debug info?

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.7.7
Installer version: v1.7.7
Operating system: Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
none

So that’s how this is obtained.