I think that as soon as you do step 3. delete everything on page 3, you loose your clipboard content.
( I suppose )
maybe you should paste immediately to page 7
My step 5 should have read “zoom out and move bars 4 through 7 one page left leaving bar 7 empty”.
So you see with your suggestion is I would overwrite the contents of page 7 which I don’t move out of the way until step 5.
Also, I know that the clipboard is preserved after step 3 because I test that in step 4.
My guess is that the memory used to keep the copied page is cleared and reused at step 5 when I move bars 4 through 6 to the left. This is unfortunate as there are many obvious scenarios where one wants to move steps left and right in preparation for pasting something copied earlier.
I just ran into the same problem and my conclusion is that it’s the paste that’s failing.
the clipboard isn’t empty - if you zoom to the level of the notes of origin you can infact paste the step back in. (lets’ say you copied a 16th note you need to be on a zoom level that displays at least 16th in order to paste it)
this seems a major oversight and I wouldn’t expect this to be fixed… makes juggling microbeats pretty tedious though.
if you have 4 bars of 4/4 populated with 64th notes and you want to copy everything you’ll need to repeat the copy paste 16times