From 216887b7d76c75cb7d9cebeabdee93cb8b1bc6aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haven1433 <haven1433@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:53:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] retry clipboard on failure

---
 .../Implementations/WindowsFileSystem.cs              | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/HexManiac.WPF/Implementations/WindowsFileSystem.cs b/src/HexManiac.WPF/Implementations/WindowsFileSystem.cs
index ca93e54e..1c1be94c 100644
--- a/src/HexManiac.WPF/Implementations/WindowsFileSystem.cs
+++ b/src/HexManiac.WPF/Implementations/WindowsFileSystem.cs
@@ -45,9 +45,14 @@ namespace HavenSoft.HexManiac.WPF.Implementations {
             try {
                Clipboard.SetDataObject(value, true);
             } catch (COMException) {
-               // something went wrong... we couldn't copy
-               var window = (MainWindow)Application.Current.MainWindow;
-               window.ViewModel.ErrorMessage = "Could not copy";
+               try {
+                  // try again, but don't try to persist the value after app exit
+                  Clipboard.SetDataObject(value);
+               } catch (COMException) {
+                  // something went wrong... we couldn't copy
+                  var window = (MainWindow)Application.Current.MainWindow;
+                  window.ViewModel.ErrorMessage = "Could not copy";
+               }
             }
          }
       }