# Why are images copied or not copied?

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149 "2024-03-10T14:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a87d85/32.png) [@Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Frank1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149/1 "2024-03-10T14:43:27Z")

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I don't think this is the fault of the BTT Clipboard Manager, I just don't understand in which cases images are copied and when they are not.

For example, if I highlight this part of a web page and then copy it ...

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/0/7/0708b91ee91b99bf66486f419ea6588a3fe6db02.jpeg)

... then I get this, without the image 🤔

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/3/2/32f2e146fa3eee8641b392a95817f665bbf26317.png)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149/2 "2024-03-10T14:48:49Z")

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That stuff is complicated.

Possibly the image has been copied, but not all apps can show the format of the copied data. BTT tries to use the best rendering it supports, but that doesn't always show the full content. Does it appear again if you paste in the same app where you copied it from?

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**Author:** ![Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a87d85/32.png) [@Frank1](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Frank1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149/3 "2024-03-10T14:55:06Z")

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> [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](#):
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> Possibly the image has been copied, but not all apps can show the format of the copied data.

Mm, if the same content of the BTT Clipboard Manager is pasted into TextEdit, then the image is displayed. But not in Scrivener. Then this is probably a Scrivener error?

Edit: Sometimes BTT shows a question mark instead of the picture

 ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/b/9/b97f4d52d1a9b961249ccf4f5fe0257112e4b874.png)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/why-are-images-copied-or-not-copied/36149/4 "2024-03-10T15:08:38Z")

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yes, I think then it should be a scrivener issue, BTT keeps an exact copy of the clipboard item (even if it is not always able to display everything)