Preview is automatically assigning password to saved PDF files
I use preview to open and split PDF files. Normally it works great. Today however it is assigning passwords to all my saved PDF's and now I cannot re-open them after saving because they are somehow being password protected! I have opened the preferences area and there is no way to make Preview automatically assign a password! What the heck is going on here? I have work to complete and I cannot move forward.
UPDATE: iMac is running Monterey and preview 11.0 - - Just tried this on my MacBook Air running Catalina and Preview 11.0 and the message is [document "..." could not be saved as "..."] I suspect there is a problem with Preview 11.0