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

Same problem here. I've used Preview for as long as it has existed. I scan a jpg document, make changes and the ****** thing won't save. I can print it, I can print to pdf but when I try to save it says it can't be done and then tells me to duplicate, which it then DOES NOT DO it! No duplicate exists. I've been trying to make it work for over 2 weeks now, and this just began with the last update. Who messed this thing up? Now I have to put it in Photoshop, make edits, change it save it, and transfer it to Preview to finish up for pdf export (only because that pdf export works better). It is a mess completely FUBAR!

Having the same problem. Here is a workaround that solved it for me:

Open up the ColorSync Utility (/Applications/Utilities). Open the image file you want to edit. At bottom left, there'll be dropdowns for "Match to Profile" and "None." Click the "None" one and select Display —> Apple RGB (or some other RGB). Save the image file in ColorSync Utility.

Now open up the saved file with Preview. You should be be able to save it as normal.

hope this helps!

Best

I am having the EXACT same issues with the Preview! SO SO frustrating! It worked until I updated the computer. APPLE: Please fix this bug.

What’s even more annoying is that, looking at the dates on many posts, this has apparently been going on for some time. I have contacted Apple a couple of times, and have received no response. This is unacceptable!

For me, upgrading from 14.1 to 14.2.1 did not help. Same problem. But the other obscure workaround mentioned above does work for me. After making the edits to the JPG, I exported to PDF, which worked fine, and then exported the PDF back to JPG, which also worked fine.

Weird one. Seems like a bug in the latest release to me. Any chance that Apple might take a look at this one?

I am speaking to an apple representative tech guy as we speak, January 17. Been talking for a while. I did mention the greyscale color issue. I will let the group know what they find.

Anastasia

My problem started after updating to 14.2.1.

If I try to edit a jpg, I get the "Cannot Save" message.

It gives an option to Duplicate, but that doesn't work either.

It seems to work with png files, just not jpg.

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

Rebooting made no difference

I just did the update and it seems to be fixed. It worked just like it is supposed to. FINALLY!

What I thought was working was only on files with a color profile. Greyscale images are still not editable even after I upgraded to 14.3 today.

I updated to 14.4.0 - and this seems to have solved the problem

Where are these files from, and in what location are you trying to save them?

I regularly edit image files to add annotation in Preview and I have not come across this (though it is usually png files that I deal with).

I am also having the same problem with Sonoma 14.1.1 As The Speakologist indicated, previously scanned photos can be edited via Preview but since upgrading to OS Sonoma, it is a problem. Additionally, I now see the words Stand Alone in the left hand corner beside the Apple symbol when I scan photos whereas previously it indicated Epson scanner during the scanning process. I have a MacBook 2022.