Preview not saving edited photos (JPEGs) on MacBook running OSX 14.0 (Sonoma)

I am running the latest version of OS - 14.3 on an M2 MBP with 32 gig RAM and 2T SSD. I upgraded my 11 year old MBP just to do higher level image processing. I'm still having terrible trouble with Preview. I'm an amateur "pro-sumer" photographer and I have a variety of Non-Adobe apps that will save photos just fine. However, I *used* to use Preview for either initial or final "tweaks" and it has been very important to me - until OS 14 when it basically quite saving at least half the images I've been working on. These are 99% COLOR images. I don't get it, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to which ones it will and won't save!

I've seen two workarounds - a) save as PDF and then re-open as JPG. This does work. b) change the color profile - I haven't tried that. These may be good for one or two images, but I work on dozens, scores or even hundreds in a sitting and this is not reasonable. The speed and ease with which I could adjust color profile, contrast, size, etc of images quickly used to be essential to me. Graphic Converter is a fantastic donation-ware image processing package. I use this, but again, final fast tweaks in Preview were important to me.

This snafu has slowed my work considerably! Saving as PDF and re-opening as JPG is a time consuming and seemingly worthless workaround for my purposes, it's not a solution. What happened to "computers make your life easier"?

Apple - PLEASE fix Preview!

Thank you

Excellent problem report. This is a community forum and is not reviewed by Apple.

I encourage you to contact Apple tech support and open a defect ticket so we aren’t just talking to each other. Perhaps you could share the defect number on this forum so we can all track progress. Sorry to ask you, but yours seems a good test case for R&D.

Anyone else have a better idea?

Does it make any difference if the files are in another location, like your Desktop or Pictures folders?

FWIW, I had some issues with Preview on Sonoma when I was still running 14.0.

Does it do the same thing:

a) while booted in Safe Mode?

b) while booted normally and logged in to a new user account?

How about shutting down your Mac and rebooting it?

The Speakologist wrote:

One of the first things I tried (multiple times) - it made no difference!

Then, how about reinstalling the macOS?

Help! I have the same problem and have a deadline for a newsletter I edit in a couple of days.

An obtuse workaround is to make the edits to the jpg, export the file to a PDF, then open the PDF with Preview and export it back to a JPEG format file.

The current version is 14.2.1, you may try updating.

Does it work if you save in a different format like png?

Does it work if you try it in a new user account?

Updating to 14.2.1 resolved the issue. Thanks!

No it makes no difference.

Version 14.2.1 Unfortunately I still have the problem. Any work around?