Copy & Paste behavior

from Stardock Forums
I find it very frustrating that if I've been performing file operations on one machine and then try and use the mouse in explorer on the other machine, that it'll stop to copy all of the currently selection over to the other machine before it even pops up the context menu and sees if I wanted to paste them.

This happens so often, sure the cut and paste between machines is really, really useful and I use it a lot, but I hate the way it interferes with the context menu. Can't it leave actually doing the copy until I choose paste?
multiplicity
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
This has been a recorded user request. It has been logged already and the devs are aware of it. My apologies for the trouble.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is not a bug in Multiplicity.

Explorer has requested the entire list of the files to be copied from the clipboard.  Because this is the one and only time it asks (the next paste operation would use that list without asking) we have to move the files on to the pc.

There is no difference in the request between doing a straight paste and what explorer does to obtain the list on a context menu.  The clipboard system informs us that we must put the final data on the clipboard before we return so we do.

Microsoft have improved things since Windows 2000 where it would ask each time you opened an explorer window, but this is something that only they can resolve by making explorer not ask about deferred clipboard data until you actually paste.  The same issue impacts remote desktop when copying a file from the remote machine to the local machine via the clipboard.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just a quick update on this, I may have found a way to trick explorer into not doing this for the right click menu on the secondary.