Preview repeatedly locks my images, saying I "don't have permission" to edit them
Preview repeatedly locks my screenshots and other images, meaning I can't edit them, change the dpi, crop, markup or anything...
I just get endless error popups saying I don't have permission to unlock the file, or I don't own the image.
I know that a 'workaround' – if you can call it that – is rebooting Preview, but that often doesn't work for any meaningful length of time either - also it's often inconvenient to do so as I've PDF docs open as well that I'm annotating alongside, and am not ready to close them just because Preview has had an attack of the vapours over a .png I'm editing. 🙄
I've also gone into Finder, clicked 'Get Info' on a folder, to unlock the entire folder and all its contents to enable any user to edit an image, but they're already unlocked, and all I can do is to click the padlock and use the little drop-down to say 'apply to all folder contents', force quit Preview and start again.
a) I shouldn't have to do this as they're my images anyway, it's my Mac, registered to me, so irrespective of it being locked or unlocked, why isn't Preview automatically giving me permission to edit all my own files by default?!
b) Even though I've done this countless times, I still have to keep returning and re-doing it weekly, so it's not a permanent solution.
c) This has been happening since early 2021. It's irritatingly time-consuming, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a piece of kit so established, to be more stable than this.
Preview has always been very buggy – a delicate flower freezing/unresponsive/crashing at simple requests like editing just one or two images. It seems to go into meltdown, falls over in a dead faint
needing a defibrillator if it's not to expire entirely.
When I've got the readies, I intend to get Affinity – until then... *sigh*
MacBook Air Apple Silicon
