Hi, my 13” 1.1 Ghz intel macbook air is ditching page content in my pdf’s when I edit them in Preview – replacing my work with blank white pages. Started a couple of weeks ago. I’ve wasted a lot of time on it to no avail. I’m a pensioner, doing unpaid work, so no way I can use Acrobat pro.
I’m on Ventura 13.6.7
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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.6
What type of edits are you doing to the pdf?
Preview is not exactly a pdf editor - you cannot edit the text in a pdf, for example.
You can add annotations (text, lines, arrows, circles, etc, as well as notes) and it usually works fine.
I use it almost daily in this way, and I can tell you that the behavior you describe is not normal.
Try starting your mac in Safe Mode, and doing one of the edits that you would normally do. Does it still cause the blank page problem?
If the problem goes away in Safe Mode it is a sure sign that some third party software modification on your system is causing a conflict with the way the system is handling pdf.
Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.
I did that, and the report appeared to have pasted ok...
I’ll do it again !
What can I do to prevent data loss in PDFs on MacBook Air Preview?
