StephenHutchinson

Above your post is a link to a legacy version Evernote that actually works... I've downloaded it for Mac and PC and it has saved me. You can get it here: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Install-an-older-version-of-Evernote

I just installed it, and it built a copy of my database.. and BOOM!!! I got copy paste out of Evernote back! Thank you so much Paul. You're a lifesaver!

Unless you have a whole other previous version of Evernote on a different machine that hasn't been upgraded, I don't believe you can downgrade. For example, on my MacBook Air I tried removed the current app and replaced it with a backup from a year ago. When I fired it up, I got a message saying that the "local database" is not compatible with the older app. On my MacBook Pro from 2009, I am not able to upgrade Evernote anymore.. which is a blessing because on that machine, the Evernote app is able to copy/paste things... so yeah... I've already started to redo my most important day to day templates in MS Word... copying out the text is at least possible and I just recreate the screenshots. There is a note above in this thread where I show how you can export a note to PDF and then copy/paste from there...

Not only that, but there is now (or has for some time) been another issue of images copy/pasted into Evernote becoming "attachments" and looking super blurred. Extremely annoying at this point. Thankfully I have an older version on my MacBook Pro 17" (2009) with El Capitan. So I can still copy/paste from Evernote to email, but the screenshot paste into Evernote issue mentioned above is still there. Thankfully El Capitan App Store won't let me upgrade to the newest version... so I still have some control. I will be looking for alternatives if this doesn't get fixed soon.

Ok I found a workaround of sorts.... Go to NOTE in the menu bar, then go down to "Print Note" Print to PDF.. this should work on either Mac or PC these days. Select everything in the PDF, copy, then paste to wherever you need to paste it. There might be some weird blocks that come along with the images, but at least on Mac I found I could delete them without ruining the other objects. This is a super kludgy way to do it but if you have MS Word or other document software you can start to copy/paste out your stuff to alternative documents and use them as templates until Evernote fixes this issue... Funny.. one of the most used features of a computer since the dawn of the computing era, copy/paste... no longer works in this app. It makes me wonder if this has become more a "feature" than a "bug" at this point... for who knows what reason...

Update.. looks like I'm screwed... This is the message I get when trying to run an old version of Evernote:

What I'm resorting to at this point is to screenshot a selection around the image(s) I need and then pasting them into my email. I will probably have to resort to creating Word documents and doing the same thing to make workable templates. I've also confirmed that this copy/paste issue applies to my Windows version as well. I'm so wishing I never upgraded the Mac version. Both versions have lost any kind of preferences and it's really hard to deal with trying to get back to the older versions. I may have a back up of an older version of Evernote. I may try to see if that would work in getting back what's been lost. Stay tuned.

Same here. I'm on MacOs and I make email templates in Evernote and then copy/paste the whole not out including screenshot images. Now, I'm hobbled because it no longer copies the images along with the text. Now I have to go back to using MS Word for templates until this issue is fixed.