Adobe Save for Web error

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October 17, 2023
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I have been experiencing this error for a while now. When trying to save for web it stops working and gives the warning "Save for web error" "Could not complete this operation. A writer permissions error has occured."
Everytme I tried the different solutions found online and they worked just fine but not this time. Everything was fine yesterday but today it just does not want to write this file.
I have tried the following:

1) reset preferences

2) update photoshop

3) Restart photoshop

4) Restart system

5) Give photoshop a complete write access to the disk

6) Checking that file and image sizes are the same

7) Trying different formats

I am on Photoshop 25.0, please help.

macOS

Correct answer christinef71940645

I've got a work around, I run photoshop v25.9 and it's not fixed.

Click on the 'preview optimized image in web browser' (bottom left or your 'save for web') it'll open up a new browser window and it's created the gif. Then drag and drop on to your desktop to send or save where ever it needs to be.

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Ares Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

Did you try a new update version?

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greg_0062Author

Participant

Hello, I got some feedback from Adobe and unfortunately the only answer they had was to update the version to the latest but here is the catch: my computer is too old for the newest version so I got to roll back to an older version. So yeah, their answer was basically: change your computer... And of course I still have to pay for the updates I cannot use!

w.v81505897

Participant

I have the same issue, and I have the newest version of all the software, so that is not the cause. Also with me this is a problem that keeps occurring. And now I even can't record the save as to an action.

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LisaH2

Participant

I have the same issue, which means that when making ani gifs that should usually be a 30 second job I have now spent hours trying to get this to work. Nothing works from the points 1-7 above. Neither does a legacy version PS 2021. This was working a couple of weeks ago and seems to somehow stopped working with exactly the same file I used, exactly the same permissions etc.. ... this happens from time to time and its very frustrating to seemlingly happen spontaneously without cause.

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greg_0062Author

Participant

Thank you for the feedback but as described in my original post I have already tried all these methods with no success.
Update I also have Photoshop 2023 installed and the Save for web works just fine with that version. It is only with Photoshop 2024 that there seems to be a problem.