Clipboard History not clearing contents properly

Describe the bug

"Clear All History, KEEP Favorites and Snippets" does not always clear the clipboard history items, and they show up again after restarting BTT.

Device information:

  • Type of Mac: Mac Mini/MacBook Pro/MacBook Air
  • macOS version: 15.5
  • BetterTouchTool version: 5.468

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
I'm wondering if a setting on my end is causing the clipboard history to break across all four of my machines.

Also, does anyone know if this feature is being retired in macOS Tahoe, and that's why it's getting less attention?

it has not gotten less attention at all. I'm using it all day every day and will definitely continue to on Tahoe :wink:

Are you sure the items that are kept are not in any snippet group? However clearing is definitely not a main functionality, I only intended this to be able to reset the database. In general the idea is to just keep the history as long as configured.

I have the same bug; I'm on Tahoe.

  1. "Clear All History, KEEP Favorites and Snippets" doesn't work.
  2. Selecting all by clicking CMD + A and then pressing backspace to delete doesn't work either.

I just tried on Tahoe but my items are gone after hitting the "Clear All History, KEEP Favorites and Snippets" button. You are sure the items that stay are not in a snippet group or marked as favorite?

Yep, the items that remain are not in a snippet group or marked as favorites. Let me record my screen.

Are they gone after you restart BTT? (Maybe a UI refresh is not happening?)

Ah, my bad.. turns out I had 2 versions on my machine (no idea how lol :smiling_face_with_tear:). Just removed one, updated the other, and now it’s working great :)))

I actually found an issue with refresh when deleting multiple items, however they should be gone after restarting.

I'll push 5.607 in a minute that should resolve it

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Works great :+1: but idk how to stop ending up with 2 BTT apps/versions? I’ve been updating from the menu bar
CleanShot 2025-09-12 at 10.00.24

if you update via the menubar, it is not possible to have two versions because it can (and will) only replace itself. Maybe some older version was still downloaded manually?

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I think so, i Just removed one, updated the other... Thanks so much :folded_hands:

5.607 is now available, @mnazemi I think that should also resolve your issues

Thank you for working on a fix. I don’t think this is a UI issue on my machines because I restart BTT every time I encounter the problem, but the entries remain.

Another issue I’m facing is that the history is blank, even though I’ve copied text from different places. At the moment, I’m experiencing this issue, so I can’t test the first one.

Additionally, I usually use the "Clear All History, KEEP Favorites and Snippets" option, but even entries that are not starred still don't get removed.

Here is how my clipboard history looks like after copying a few things from different apps like my browser, terminal, etc.

Is this with v5.607?

Yes.

Should I close the app, remove everything clipboard-related under Application Support/BetterTouchTool, and retry?

Would at least be worth a try to get rid of the clipboard manager database, basically any files that start with BTTClipboardManager located in ~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool (go there via FInder => Go => Go to Folder, make sure to include the ~)

I removed the clipboard-related files under Application Support. Here are the file names:

  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite-shm
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite-wal
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite-shm
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.sqlite-wal
  • BTTClipboardManager.sqlite-shm
  • BTTClipboardManager.sqlite-wal

The following files were created as soon as I opened BTT:

  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite-shm
  • BTTClipboardManager_20241210.20251507sqlite-wal

This seems to have fixed the issue, and only the last entry in the clipboard remains after clearing the history (although the app icon has changed, which is not a big deal):


I'll follow the same steps on all machines and report back after a few days of testing it (one of the machines was set up very recently though).