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If I have two diagrams open and attempt to select all the elements in the first diagram for copying to the second, the paste operation only pastes the Lifelines - the messages are not copied. I had a number of sequence diagrams that used a lot of the same message sequence and could not get the copy and paste to work.
yes, copy messages is missed feature.