acrobat reader advanced search error skips files

Running latest Reader in Sonoma 14.1 on my new Mac Mini, and since on this new machine and OS, I am not able to do advanced search within folders of PDFs. The error message says 'Search has skipped [number of files] files because these files are corrupted or you don't have permissions to open them.'


I do have full read/write permissions, but indeed Reader does not open the files in the folder I was searching. For what it is worth, Preview has no problem opening these files. Reinstalling free Reader for Mac and purging cache content have not changed anything.


Ideas? (I am a heavy user of the powerful advanced search feature, and have indexed huge collections of PDFs of historical publications for research...hate losing this functionality.) Thanks!

Mac mini, macOS 14.1

Posted on Nov 5, 2023 11:17 AM

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Nov 6, 2023 07:57 AM in response to OpusBird

Personally, I would use Apple's Spotlight to identify specific features of a given PDF such as name, page count, creation date, keywords, Finder tag, and single or quoted multiple word passages in the PDF, etc. Then open that qualifying PDF with Adobe Reader.


Why Acrobat Reader is identifying some PDFs as damaged and Apple's Preview opens them is opposite of what I would expect, and would be a conversation with Adobe or a post in Adobe Acrobat Reader Community forum.

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