Preview app file permissions issue
I'm receiving this dialog box (see above) for a significant number of images on my hard drive when attempting to Open them with the OS X Preview application.
The odd thing is there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason (i.e. 'jpeg' vs. 'jpg', date, size, naming, folder and sub-folders) to which files are affected.
Also, I can view these same images with Quick Look (in the Finder); and Open them with third-party applications without an issue.
I've tried manually changing the image file Permissions via Get Info, but the default shows me as already having Read & Write privileges. I've tried resetting this via individual files (one-by-one) and as a batch in a folder, but it didn't make any difference. Those impacted remained impacted; those not impacted weren't changed, either.
Finally, this malady isn't impacting any other file types.
Ideas?
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), 3.3 GHz Core i5, 24 GB 1600 MHz DDR