Data or text are not a conflict. It's the limits of Ditto as the last entity/object copy works, but when I paste another file from a previous entity copy, the AutoCAD 'OLE' alert pops up and refuses the copy to paste. Must be Ditto doesn't keep all that's needed. As mentioned, the alternate solution is my temp folder, which saves copies and I can d&d/paste and explode them as original. Are there any other clipboard manager users with info?? Thanks Marco.