Recovering clipboard history on windows

Ashish Patel
Codebrace
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2 min readNov 26, 2016

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Windows clipboard stores only one item. Previous clipboard contents is always replaced by the next copied item and you can’t retrieve it. so you have to use a third party application for storing all your clipboard data so that you can recover it whenever you like on of them is Clipdiary.

Reasons To Use Clipboard History and Clipdiary

1. You copied some data to the clipboard and then accidentally overwrote it there?
2. A couple of minutes ago you copy/pasted some text, and now you need it again?
3.You know that yesterday (or last week, or even a couple of months ago) you copy/pasted some information from one place (an e-mail, a quick note, a web page, a chat, etc.) to another? Well, now you can find that piece of data easily by searching the clipboard history.

How to retrieve clipboard history?

To recover clipboard history you need to use special software — clipboard manager. Clipdiary will record everything that you are copying to the clipboard. Text, images, HTML, lists of copied files… So you can easily recover the history and copy the items back to the clipboard or paste directly to any application when you need.

After you installed ClipDiary

  • Hit Ctrl+D to pop up Clipdiary(unless you have changed it to any other)
  • Click the necessary clipboard history item to paste it directly to the needed application Or
  • Right-click the necessary clipboard history item and choose “Copy to Clipboard” to copy the item back to the clipboard.

you can watch video in following youtube link if you want to learn how to use clipDiary….

using clip diary

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Ashish Patel
Codebrace

Big Data Engineer at Skyscanner , loves Competitive programming, Big Data.