Q: Can't open pictures with preview after installing Photos app.
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Mar 14, 2016 8:32 PMby LarryHN,You need to provide details - with what you have posted no one can understand your issue much less give you a solution -- what software and versions? Exactly how are you trying to open the photos? Where is their source (if they are not in the Photos library then they certainly do have to be imported)? As a hint spend your time and energy providing reverent details rather than writing editorials
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Mar 14, 2016 8:52 PMby sevalho,ok
OS X El capitan 10.11.3
Photos version 1.3
Preview version 8.1
Since I opened photos app for the first time, every .jpg, .pdf and other image files I try to open gives me the same message: "The file “photo-000.jpg” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."
I go to get info and the permission is already set to read and write, but I can't open the file anyway. I can only import it to photos app and there I can see it.
I just recently updated to el capitan, and I tend to organise my pictures in folders, but now it seems that the only way the computer will let me view the pictures is if I import them to the Photos app. And its not just pictures, its books, pdf files, anything, imagine. I can't work.
Before I opened the app for the first time I could open jpg of pdf files in preview just as usual. I don't understand how opening the app could do this.
And it also leaves the preview app useless.
What should I do to solve this?
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Mar 14, 2016 9:18 PMby sevalho,Thank you for your persistence.
I will try to be as clear as I can.
Until yesterday everything was working as usual. I read a lot of books and articles in my computer, I have hundreds of articles and books in it. The application I use to open these pdf files is Preview. Yesterday I was reading an article and I realised I had never opened this Photos app since I upgraded to El capitan. In the previous system I used the old iPhotos. So I opened Photos and it started importing and sorting my iPhotos library, as it was going to take a long time I quit all the other applications and left the computer alone for a while.
As I came back Photos was set up, with the old iPhoto library, it seemed all right, so I quit photos and try to resume reading my article. When I double click the pdf file a message appears
"The file "xxxx” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it. To view or change permissions, select the item in the Finder and choose File > Get Info."
But in get info the permission is already set to read and write, and I'm the only user of this computer.
From this point I realise that every single file I try to open with Preview gives me the same message. For example png files, pdf files, jpg files. Basically anything I try to open by double clicking, by command + O, by right clicking and choosing open with, takes me to the same message telling me I have no permission.
I know it has something to do with opening the Photos app, as it happened immediately after I opened it for the first time. And now I can't read my files.
