Copying Text from Safari to Scrivener

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This is an updated version of makro from 2018. It has been working perfect but it seems that executing it after having selected a fairly large text on screen, like from a newspaper... it will abort.

Is there any limits size wise?

If I simply use the standard copy/paste function in MacOS there is no problem to get all selected text pasted into the scrivener document.

Any suggestions are welcome

I hope this gets posted correctly. It has been so long since I had a KM problem :smiley:

Kind regards,
Palle Jensen

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Since I also have a MacMini M1 I tested it there. The macro runs fine there... I am curious what causes it to abort on the iMac 27-5K!

Must mention that the selected area includes a number of photos / graphs.
The text in itself is about 23k characters, according to BBEdit
Palle

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This may have to do with the system limit on environment variables. Keyboard Maestro script actions stop working if your total variable storage approaches 256K with a message in the Engine log that the variable has been “excluded from environment to ensure the environment is not too large.”

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Ok, I looked into the log and this is all I see:

2021-09-26 19:00:57 Execute macro “4_Scriv_Copy_Paste” from trigger The Hot Key ⌃F9 is pressed
2021-09-26 19:01:07 Action timeout exceeded.. Macro “4_Scriv_Copy_Paste” cancelled (while executing Copy).

Is this what you mention?

5

Nope. An action in your macro is timing out. That's a different problem entirely.

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I have not used the debugger actions myself, but in this case, since the issue with a particular action, it might be helpful to use the debugger actions to find out which action is the cause.

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