Turn Off Clipboard Monitoring

Most users won't need to use these advanced features.

If you have history features turned on in the Storage panel of the Settings window then Batch Clipboard is continually monitoring the clipboard to add new items copied. You can issue a shell command in Terminal or a script to tell Batch Clipboard to stop monitoring the clipboard and ignore anything copied for as long as you need:

defaults write lol.bananameter.batchclip ignoreEvents true

Enable monitoring again with:

defaults write lol.bananameter.batchclip ignoreEvents false

This is useful if you have some workflow for copying sensitive data. You can set ignoreEvents to true, copy the data and set ignoreEvents back to false. While Batch Clipboard is ignoring the clipboard the menu bar icon will appear disabled.

These details are also noted in the Advanced panel of the Settings window, see Advanced Panel.

You can do the same by clicking the Batch Clipboard menu icon with SHIFT (⇧) + CONTROL (^) + OPTION (⌥) pressed. Do this once to start ignoring the clipboard, and again to resume monitoring it.

Also, using Start Collecting or Copy & Collect or the keyboard shortcut CONTROL (^) + COMMAND (⌘) + C will also re-enable clipboard monitoring, because Batch Clipboard needs to monitor in order to collect copied items.

You can also click the menu icon with CONTROL (^) + OPTION (⌥) pressed to ignore only the next copy. After the next copy, normal clipboard monitoring will automatically resume and the menu bar icon will be restored to normal.

By default, Batch Clipboard's history features are off as macOS now ships with a similar feature. When history features are off Batch Clipboard only monitors the clipboard when _batch mode is on, indicated by the number beside its menu bar icon. At all other times Batch Clipboard is not doing anything in the background, not monitoring the clipboard, not storing any new data.