How to find an old copy in NotchStar clipboard history
To find something you copied a while ago, open the notch, pick Clipboard and type a few letters from it. NotchStar searches all of the 50 items it keeps, so an old copy that is no longer in the first screen of rows still turns up.
Steps
- Hover over the notch and pick Clipboard.
- Click the search box and type a word you remember from the copy. Capital letters and accents do not matter.
- Scroll the matches if there are several, then click the one you want. It goes back on the clipboard.
What to type for each kind of item
- Text: a word or part of a word from it.
- Links: a piece of the address, such as the site name.
- Files: part of the file name, or part of its folder path. See files copied in Finder.
- Images: the word image, or a number from the size.
If it is not there
The copy may have been pushed out by 50 newer ones, may have come from a password manager that marks it concealed, or may have been made before NotchStar started or before you last quit it. See why an item is missing.
Limits
NotchStar has no history from before it started running, and none of it survives a quit. The Mac itself does not keep an older copy to recover.
More about searching is in how to search your clipboard history. The tool is on the Clipboard feature page.
