P: Save For Web error A write permissions error has occurred Photoshop 22.1.1

[benmingo]

Hello,

I am using the PS 22.1.1 version and when I try to save for web I get the error. "Adobe Save For Web Error A write permissions error has occurred " 

Any help?

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[Grant H]

Hi, are you trying to save it to a protected folder maybe?

[StudioMaPo]

no the message appears no matter where I try to save... (I have Dropbox that makes a backup of my computer?)

[benmingo]

I don't think so. I'm just trying to save to my downloads or desktop folder.

[Greg Harbour · Accepted solution]

Photoshop still not able to <Save for web> with Dropbox backup enabled. Fiddly and inconvenient to disable.

Workaround : In Photoshop <Save for web>, Click <Preview> button bottom-left; your animated GIF will open in your default browser, right-click the gif in the browser and <Save image …> either to Downlaods or nominated folder.

[whannes]

Genius! This workaround did it for me, thanks!

[rocketscience-AD]

Brilliant solution. Thank you!

[Lindsay26083125si0v]

This workaround was awesome! Saved me an hour of research and headaches 

[travisp15715152]

Great work around without having to turn off dropbox

[faluna]

This worked for me as well with PS 2023. And interestingly enough, as soon as I saved it from the web browser, I was also able to save it from within Photoshop! Weird!

[Child-ish]

This is the only thing that worked for me. Thanks!!

[Rodrigo Roveri]

THANK YOU GENIUS 2 ! 

[isabellab5457160]

Hey there, it didn't work for me 😞 Also I need to create an automated workflow so it wouldn't do it anyway. Do you have any other solution. Why is it that dropbox is an issue? I am actually saving all my projects in dropbox and it has always been working. 😞 so frustrating. thanks for any help. 

[Pixel Worker]

My impression is that when using Dropbox Backup of your Desktop it's moving your desktop folder into a sub folder in the Users/YourName folder. And because of this Save For Web Legacy isn't programmed to accept that. Save for web legacy is a very old part of photoshop and may have some code that isn't flexible enough for the scenario. 
Since my previous post where I was able to disable/reenable DB BU, after my last system update reenabling the feature just breaks it again

[isabellab5457160]

Thanks for your reply.  The strange thing is that it's been working for quite some time and then it suddenly stops working. I find it so weird. If it is as you said, because "For Web Legacy isn't programmed to accept that", then it should never work, right? 

[Jeasung J5E68]

Ah. Just saw this and tried it worked. It would be nice if Adobe fixed this annoying bug - time waste.

[isabellab5457160]

So I have been 2 hours in the chat with Adobe support trying many different scenarios and nothing worked until tried to log in to my Mac with a different account where Dropbox was not working and it worked. So I contacted dropbox to help me stop the backup which I thought was connected with sync but they are two separate things. I don't need to have a backup of the Mac because I have everything on dropbox. 

So like @Pixel Worker said, now I have disabled the Dropbox back up and the save for web is working. End of the sad story LOL

Thanks a lot for all your help 

[PatttyLemgruber]

tks!!!!

[Back Forty Studio]

Worked! I still haven't figured out how to remove the permissions error, however.

[Jaime32318654lng3]

Makes perfect sense! Thanks for sharing!

[Kristin24790512n5yp]

weirdly having the permissions issue suddenly, i did this workaround then tried to export normally again just to see... and export worked fine. previous save was sending me to my documents folder, now it's choosing the folder with the original psd on my desktop.

[LisaH2]

Thanks for this genius solution!
Nothing worked and after nearly two hours of frustration I find your workaround.  The odd thing is that sometimes the legacy save starts working again and then just as randomly stops - so this is going to be useful indefiniately. Wish that Adobe would fix this bug once and for all!

[Isabel25421038kpi1]

So simple! the only thing that finally worked, thanks!

[John33142357chps]

Great, thank you so much! I'm on a network computer with limited permissions; it doesn't even have DropBox. This was the only solution that worked for me!

[fantastic_wisdom7734]

thank you! genius solution after researching for hours.