Cannot save in Preview - don't have "permission"

I can open up an image in Preview with no problems, but I can't save it. The location where I'm trying to save the image to doesn't matter. The command+S option is not "Save" but instead "Save a Version", which of course doesn't work either. The error I get is this:


"The document "title" could not be saved. You don't have permission. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."


Well, I did that and it still doesn't work. I am the admin, this is my own computer, and I never had this issue until I upgraded to Lion (from Snow Leopard). Any idea why this is happening and how do I fix it?


Thanks in advance!

MacBook

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 5:26 PM

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Oct 18, 2011 10:34 AM in response to ToxicShockTaco

Bumped to add that I changed permissions (me: read and write, everyone: no access) and that seemed to work...at first. Now I'm getting the error again, but it occurs sporadcially; sometimes I'll have an error, sometimes I won't. Can't figure out why.


It gives me the option to "duplicate", and I have tried that, and that seems to work OK. However, I shouldn't have to do this though, and I never had this issue until upgrading to Lion.


I did an experiment. I saved some random image from the internet onto my desktop with no problems. I opened it up with Preview and cropped it. Saved with no problems. It seems like only screen capped images (Command+Shift+4, to be precise) cause this problem in Preview. Oddly, I can open them and edit them fine in Paintbrush. (Although Paintbrush pulls up all the images that I recently edited, but that's a different issue altogether.)


Another problem with Preivew (as well as Pages) is that I don't have an option to "Save" or "Save as". It's always "save a version." Well, I don't want to save a version! I want to save like how I USED TO.


Any help with this would be greatly appreciated; as you can tell I'm pretty frustrated!

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