Why can't I save pdf files in Safari 5.1.2

Thank you SO much. I have been dealing with this same problem ALL day. Had been uploadng PDF files to my desktop forever, until today. Thought it was maybe the website, but worked fine on a different MAC. Remembered I had updated Adobe yesterday. After following Linc Davis's instructions to delete the 3 items from my library, I still wasn't able to upload a PDF file. Continuing to read more replys, I found yours and BINGO, I can now get some work done! Thanks again to you and everyone offering help.

That's the thing I like about this forum, there is almost always someone who has already solved the problem you have.

DN

instead of save in the file menu, click on the floppy icon in the pdf tool bar at bottom.

AFAIK that requires you to save in the downloads folder, which I frequently *do not* want to do. The Save As option is more flexible as it allows you to choose the save location. The same save control option is available in the simpler interface for the older Acrobat plugin, and I don't use that for the same reason. The difference between the two is that the older control didn't break the Save As option, whereas the new control does. (As far as I have been able to discern).

DN

Thanks for everyone's suggestion. I deleted the NPAPI plug in and it seems to be working fine. Again, as mentioned above, not sure what else I've "disabled".

I also sent a note to Adobe to see if they were aware of the issue, and offer a fix.

Thanks again.

G

Having the same experience as everyone here the way I "solved" that was to use google's Chrome browser to get my pdf I wanted to download. Very simple and easy without doing any of those tricks. I know this is very un-Mac but ...hey it worked. But thanks all the people here who shared all their interesting solutions and ideas. It was bugging me for a few hours until I came to this forum. Hope Safari people will fix this soon, as I am an avid user of it!

Thank you very much. I wish I understood it, but it worked. I am functional again. Thanks so much!!!!

I also had this problem and the solution was to go to the bottom of the page where the .pdf controls appear, and click on the disc icon (to save) and this took care of the problem without having to delete or disable any plug ins.

This worked, Thank You!!

Thanks, dcnicholls!

deleting this plug in solved my problem. Thanks!

THANKS to dcnicholls.....it fixed my problem which has been irritating me for several days.....again, thanks!

Thank you, DCNichols (and everyone). I updated Adobe yesterday (routine update) and lost my ability to save or print pdfs. Thanks for the assistance!

This just started happening to me in March. Worked fine for months before that. Not sure what got changed, never will figure out that as I'm just a user not a techie....

Well, saving to the floppy as suggested above seemed to solve my problem. Well, not really... It did allow me a way to save a PDF that works, but there must be a problem under the covers somewhere..

Anyway, since the floppy suggestion works - THANKS!

Where is this library folder that everyone is talking about? I'm fairly new to the IPad and can't find it. I want to be able to SAVE PDF files and one would think this would be rather simple. But now I am in a quagmire of answers that I don't understand. I can even see folders that have been saved in the PDF application so it must have saved them automatically. I can delete them, edit them but how so I save a New one???

Any help appreciated.