I've been a paid user of CP for many years and I have to say I am very disappointed by the state of this supposed beta program. I find CopyPaste Pro 1.x to be a large step back in usability and stability compared with the previous version.

First let me say that I've paid for CPP and have been using it for weeks now. I've gone back to using the old version.

Several things bother me:

1) The new version is much slower than the older version, especially on older G4 hardware. The old version worked great on older hardware. The new version slows down copying and pasting so there is a delay which doesn't happen with the older version.

2) Pay more for less: The cost of the program ($30) is more than the older version it replaces, but you do not get key features like Y-Type. The author has suggested that we'll all have to pay to get that feature back.

3) The new version focuses on eye candy rather than useful new features. The pallets have a certain "modern" feel to them, but don't want to be "wowed" by the eye candy of such a potentially useful product. What I want is to forget that I even have the thing installed. I don't want it to get in my way or distract me. CPP is just supposed to add important functionality to the copy and paste process.

4) CPP is becoming bloated. Instead of focusing on improving the core features, the author has decided to add all kinds of things we really don't need. I don't want or need a new word processor. Bean takes a while to launch and adds features that most people will never need just to make a quick edit to a copied bit of text. Give me a simple, built-in text editor that doesn't use even more RAM. Most people are going to recopy text from the source rather than take lots of time to load a separate program just to make an edit for a program they probably still have open.

All-in-all I really hope the author does a serious rethink of his program and works to make the program more useful and less bloated.