Q: How to return the "Save As..." menu item to Preview (Fix)
I was very disheartened to find that in more current versions of OSX for the program Preview, the "Save As..." menu item had been removed and that the "Duplicate" menu item that replaced it seemed to cause me a number of problems. I did a bit of research and found that the "Save As..." item could be found under the File menu if I hold down option when I select the menu. But that's not good enough for me and I found enough complaints about this that I can tell that I'm not the only one. Luckily I accidentally found a fix to this which I wasn't expecting.
I opened up System Preferences and selected Keyboard hoping that I could change the keyboard shortcut for "Save As..." to the three key combination that it had been (Shift-Command-S) instead of the four key combination that it now required (Shift-Option-Command-S). The "Duplicate" shortcut now uses (Shift-Command-S) so I decided to change the keyboard shortcut to that first just in case it created a conflict, so I assigned it a ridiculous combination of keys to "Duplicate" because I will never need to use that item as a shortcut. As soon as I did that, before I changed the keys to the "Save As..." shortcut, I checked the "File" menu in Preview just to make sure it showed the new combination for "Duplicate" and to my surprise, the "Save As..." menu item was listed right above it. So the issue I was looking for an alternate fix to gave me a more direct fix. I still changed the keyboard shortcut for "Save As..." to what it was in previous versions, and things are back the way I like them.
Hopefully, this will be useful to others facing this issue.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on Sep 17, 2015 8:44 AM
As noted you have resolved the issue, but you can apply it across the board for all apps by following this. works for mountain lion and above.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/27/enable-save-as-os-x-mountain-lion/
Posted on Sep 17, 2015 4:25 PM