Adobe Reader X - Save Button is greyed out

There is an option to "Disable new acrobat".  Once you do that, you get the old workable interface that allows you to save.   It will also pop up a survey asking why you turned it off, so you get a chance to tell Adobe that not being able to save a file locally is not acceptable. 

For me it was HP Sure Click software, uninstalled and save button was available.

Three years later after the last post and this is still an issue. @adobe Please fix this issue. It is slowing down my workers and I am getting many complaints. Will you please change the code and allow us to just hit the save button or at least allow us to have the save-as button in the toolbar.

I'm having the same problem. In addition to the office workflow that some have mentioned, I am having trouble as a homeowner. Electricians and technicians are relying on smart devices more and more. When they complete their work, they send the invoice or bill via e-mail. There is no paper copy. This would suit me fine (fewer paper copies to file), except that I am unable to save the invoice because the save button is gray.

Also, why are staff members not monitoring this board? There has been no reply or update since Nov. 25, 2010.

It boggles the mind that in this day and age a company like Adobe could do such a stupid thing as putting a grayed out "save" button in the new release!  Where are these peoples heads?  The name of the game is to give users flexibility - or so I thought.  Maybe this is a subtle message from Adobe about where they are going with their "free" reader?   

So I agree with all the comments here!  How do you downgrade back to Adobe 9?  :-D

Also, in the meantime...  I understand what y'all mean about getting around this using the "Save As" feature.  When a pdf opens within my browser (Firefox), I am able to do this via the "File" at the top of my browser.

However, when a pdf opens in a new browser window (I'm not sure what makes determines the distinction... I suppose it's coding within the website), it's a limited firefox window with the URL and adobe toolbar (with the Save button greyed).  I don't have a "File" drop down menu!  So, I do the ctrl-shift-S as suggested in this thread.  A box pops up and asks if I'm sure (because I can't save changes to this document), I click OK, and it disappears.  I'm assuming it's just re-saving it in some temporary cache somewhere on my computer, because it doesn't give me a "save as" or where to save box.

Note: if I open a pdf already on my computer, it opens in adobe reader, and I have the "File" drop down there.

Exactly the same problems and annoyances as other posters.  Grayed out save button makes saving the THOUSANDS of pages I scan everyday a much longer and harder task.  It now takes significantly longer to do the same process, all due to:

-HAVING to go to File, Save As, PDF  (I never make changes to the documents, just need to save them)

-HAVING to now select the proper save folder, every time, instead of it going to the last folder I used to save, when I save.  Making it 20 seconds now to save each of the 1000's of pages, which is 5 hours, versus the 5 seconds it took with the save NOT grayed out, and it defaulting to the last used folder to save, which took only 1.4 hours.  Difference of: 3.6 hours. ALL DUE TO THE NEW UPDATE 'X', I now have to waste that much more time doing an already dauting task.

Not cool Adobe.  I really have to wonder who the heck these updates are supposed to help????  Who thought it would be 'better' to gray out a button, yet leave it there to taunt users?  Just ridiculous.  Damn it that I can't use another program.  Also, REALLY tired of updates, at the frequency of which seems to be every time I turn on my computer.  Now I'm really annoyed about that, since this last update has screwed up what was working fine before.

PLEASE FIX!!!  You're alientaing your faithful users by creating erroneous updates.

What I've been doing is using the keyboard command Ctrl+Shift+S, which brings up the Save As... dialog box.

Like thinksink, I receive PDFs by email.  I scan documents using our printer/scanner/fax machine, and it sends the documents to my email account as PDF files.  By default, the documents are named "scan.pdf", and it is inconvenient to type in a different document title before sending.  So, when scan.pdf arrives in my inbox, I open the file to ensure that the document has scanned correctly, and if it has, I save it to the appropriate folder on my drive.

In Reader 9, I could click the Save... button (which was NOT greyed out), and the Save As... dialog box would open.  I think the first time I did that, I was shown a warning that changes to the document could not be saved and if I wanted to save it, I would have to save it to a  file with a different name.  Since this is exactly what I intended to do, everything worked great.  And, I didn't have to see the warning every time because there was a "Don't show me this again" check box.

Another related annoying change from Reader 9 is that Reader X doesn't remember what folder I saved the last document to.  In the Save As... dialog box, the saving process for each document always starts in the temporary folder that Outlook stores attachments in, and I have to work my way through the directory tree to save each file.  This occurs even when I leave the application running and just close the last document.

The Save button would still work but it would function as Save As on first save. For all practical purposes you should still be able to use this button like always with a Save As dialog popping up on the first edit.

When changes are made to the PDF for the first time, the file will have to be SavedAs.

Making subsequent changes to the file in the same Reader instance will allow Save.