store clipboard in windows & linux

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When u copy something in clipboard where does it go: Memory or Virtual RAM?
How much is the size of clipboard in Windows? Is it different from Linux or Macintosh OSs?
How do we increase the size of clipboard in Windows?

Posted 30-Sep-13 7:22am

sajad abbasi

Updated 30-Sep-13 10:28am

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RedDk 30-Sep-13 16:53pm

Two MS solutions that might be of interest:
"Clipboard Spy Sample" -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms771509(v=vs.85).aspx
"Clipboard Viewer Sample" -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb295242(v=vs.85).aspx
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Ron Beyer · Answer 1 · 2013-09-30T07:31:00

Virtual RAM (or more specifically, the page file) is a place on disk that is created to place memory items on that are not frequently used or are too big to fit into physical memory.

At least on Windows, I'm not sure there is a physical limit aside from available memory to store clipboard items. If you are putting something on the clipboard that big anyway, its not the proper use for the clipboard. The clipboard is only meant to be a user-interactive method for transferring data between applications, not for moving huge amounts of data around, depending on the data, there are other tools for that.

The "clipboard" works differently in different applications. For example, in Windows Explorer, pressing CTRL-C/Z on a file does not place the entire file in memory, just a reference to it.

You do not increase the size of the clipboard in windows, and I don't think you can do it in Linux (very UI platform dependent by the way) or on Apple.

What are you trying to do exactly, because it seems that the clipboard is not the right solution...