My usual workflow when I scan a text document is to correct colors and play with contract to reduce their file size. However, since I upgraded to Sonoma, I find that whatever image I scan, to whatever format (tried png and jpeg so far) end up creating files that I am totally unable to save after modification, or save as another name, from the Preview app of macOS.
I get this message on Save As:
The document “scan.png” could not be saved as “scan-a”.
And this when I play with the colors and Save:
The document “scan.png” could not be saved.
If anyone knows a fix for this, I would be most grateful, as fixing colors of scanned PNG images reduces their size from 20 MiB to between 1 and 2 MiB. It also helps removing scan artifacts by playing with the contrast.
There seem to be additional macOS permissions happening here (judging from the
@
in the permissions), but I don't know much more. In the _Inspect_ window for the file, I don't see it being _Locked_ and the listed privileges for my user are _Read & Write_.
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adeynack staff 15M Oct 16 22:37 scan.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 adeynack staff 4B Oct 16 22:40 test.txt
# EDIT / Additional Info
### Software Used
The software used for scanning the _Image Capture_, included in _macOS_.
### More Detailed ls
The result of ls -lae@
is as following.
total 29904
drwxr-xr-x 5 adeynack staff 160 Oct 16 22:40 .
drwx------+ 9 adeynack staff 288 May 22 21:33 ..
0: group:everyone deny delete
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adeynack staff 6148 Oct 16 22:41 .DS_Store
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
-rw-r--r--@ 1 adeynack staff 15296080 Oct 16 22:37 scan.png
com.apple.lastuseddate#PS 16
com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_djebsaob4taaoilt6jtfvis3ne 121
com.apple.quarantine 22
-rw-r--r-- 1 adeynack staff 4 Oct 16 22:40 test.txt
Funny, this quarantine
metadata that we see there 🤔. However, even after removing it...
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine scan.png
... I still cannot _Save_ / _Save As_ the file.
And the moment I try again to open it in _Preview_ and save it, the quarantine
metadata comes back.
### Alternatives Tried
The software saves automatically in ~/Pictures/Scan
. I tried copying the file over to ~/Downloads
and it had the same effect. I tried _Duplicate_-ing the file from _Finder_ and it still had the same behavior.
Asked by Adeynack
(151 rep)
Oct 16, 2023, 08:44 PM
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