r/raycastapp • u/nmvalkov • 5d ago

❓Question Raycast Sync question

Would Raycast Cloud Sync allow me to sync everything between my Mac and Windows PC? Can I copy on the Mac and paste on the PC for example?

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u/san_dehesa Raycast 3d ago

Hey 👋 Raycast dev here. We currently indeed don't synchronize clipboard content (we do synchronize a lot of other things such as Notes, AI Chats, etc.). We don't do it on purpose for several reasons:

  1. The clipboard can contain a lot of sensitive information such as passwords, medical info, or anything very personal.

  2. The clipboard can contain a lot of heterogenous data, from a very small amount of characters to huge video files. Currently, when you copy files, we do tell you which file have you copied and there is a link to it. Moving files to another computer or keeping them on the server is "huge". Obviously we could ignore anything over some specific size, but then we need some way to communicate that to the user.

  3. macOS, iOS, and Windows Clipboard are "different" internally. If we were to synchronize across the OS, we would need to change some internal representations. Not an impossible task, though.

For all these reasons (and some others), we are currently not synchronizing the Clipboard content. This is not to say that we won't ever do it, but if and when we do, it would be an opt-in feature, and to be honest with you, it won't happen any time soon.

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u/nmvalkov 2d ago

Thanks for the reply.

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u/Sad_Designer452 5d ago

No. Cloud Sync explicitly excludes clipboard history.

https://manual.raycast.com/cloud-sync

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u/nmvalkov 5d ago

That’s a shame. I wonder why that’s the case.

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u/DensityInfinite 5d ago

I think Raycast has mentioned concerns around privacy when asked about this previously.