Q: "File could not open because you do not have permission to view it."

This is a major flaw and Apple seems to be totally uninterested in sorting this out.

A long term Windows user - now been using Mac for 3 years - this has been a constant problem - with no solution that doesn't involve continuously tinkering under the bonnet and doing the same things over and again.

I am the sole user of my Mac - and am, therefore, the admin and should have full permissions for everything.  I have a NAS on my home network - Windows accesses this with no problems (all permissions are correctly setup on the NAS).  Can OS X deal with it properly - of course not!  I am constantly running into a brick wall with permissions - telling me I don't have the correct permissions.  OS X seems happy to change these randomly - what was read & write is now read only.  Ridiculous.  I am then not, as the admin, allowed to change them - being told I don't have the right permissions to do this.

This is a fundemental issue that needs addressing - Apple have not over the past 3 years of my experience and I don't expect they will in the future.  The most advanced OS?   Laughable.

Of course, following vaious threads requires the end user to either mess around in Terminal or play around with Disk Utility - both not dealing with my own files on my own NAS!

well, i figured out my problem, so maybe this will help some of you.

i have one PDF (main index) that has many links in it to to 12 other PDF files that are quite large.  the initial problem was that none of the links would work.  they would just say that i didn't have permission...blah blah blah. 

so i opened each individual PDF of the 12 larger files.  then clicked on the "NAME.PDF 1 of 218" on the top of preview window.  it gives you several options, one being "lock".  i clicked lock on each of my 12 PDF files and now every link in the main index actually works, sending me to the larger PDF files and the correct page.  i'm hopeful it will continue to, but i'm pretty excited that this is working as of now. 

hope this helps some of you...

jbass71

That was the answer to my problem!

That was the answer to my problem. (I responded to the wrong entry earlier, re:linked pdf's. This one worked.

Sorry, I'm not used to the protocol here. I was trying to respond specifically to the answer that involved unlocking the iPad to load new files. That worked for me. I'm sorry, I didn't realize my reply would go to the end of the thread.

Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.

Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:

• Caches/com.apple.Preview
• Containers/com.apple.Preview
• Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
• Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState

Launch the application and test.

Select all the pdf files in Finder

Get info for all files (Command-Ctrl-I)

Click "Locked" (In the General section)

PDF links should now work.

If desired, go back and unlock the files the same way. Links should still work.

Shobbhit, thank you very much for your time and helpfulness. This problem was driving me nuts! Your solution worked.

give it a This solved my question then ...

Back up all data. Quit Preview if it's running.

Hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, delete the following items, if they exist:

• Caches/com.apple.Preview
• Containers/com.apple.Preview
• Preferences/com.apple.Preview.LSSharedFileList.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.Preview.SandboxedPersistentURLs.LSSharedFileList.plist
• Saved Application State/com.apple.Preview.savedState

Launch the application and test.

This solved my question.

Thanks.

(I can't find how to add a "This solved my question" otherwise )

Thanks, i saved a file in Bluebeam PDF on my windows in parallels and all of sudden all my pdf files I didn;t have permission to on my Mac side. Thanks this corrected it, just don;t know why it happened in the forst place, I do this all the time and never had a problem. Do you have any advicee, thanks.

Question, after doing this, I thought everything was fine, but preview then crashed and I was attaching a pdf to to airmail and then it also crashed. I rebooted and my setting are gone from Preview. Does preview replace these files that were removed? When I go back and look they have not been replaced with new versions.

Rebooting worked for me also

All,

This is a simple fix.

Close all previews. There may be too many open causing your socuments to crash.

Just worked for me.,

Thanks

Dane