Copying error messages from dialog boxes

Posted on August 17th, 2009 in General, Technology, Work by Jim Prince

I made an interesting discovery recently. It would appear that if you press CTRL + C when the focus is on a error message it copies the text from the dialog box onto your clipboard. How useful is that?

Here’s an example;


Contents from the clipboard after pressing CTRL + C.


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Message from webpage
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Unable to retrieve configuration settings.
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OK
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I wonder what other useful features I’m still to discover? Oh and if anyone knows why I’m unable to retrieve configuration settings I’d like to know ;-)