Magic File Renamer Help


Clipboard Text

Inserts the current Windows clipboard into a format string. Clipboard text is preferred; if the clipboard holds files instead, the first file path is used. Line breaks and other control characters become spaces. Empty, whitespace-only, image-only, or unsupported clipboard content contributes nothing.

Signature: <clipboard>

Clipboard text longer than 4096 characters is truncated. File paths from the clipboard are not truncated.

The clipboard is read once at the start of each preview, so every item in that pass sees the same value. Changing the clipboard alone does not refresh the Rename List. To pick up new clipboard text, toggle Auto-Preview off and then on (or make any other change that normally re-runs preview). Prefer the Auto-Preview toggle over Refresh (F5), which also re-reads files from disk and clears manual overrides.