Cannot save over existing PDF

I have a reports that I open and save while I work on them, and I do this multiple times in a row but only need to have a specific report handy for a few minutes. So I will then open a new one and go to save it over the previous one, it says do you want to over right to which I click on yes, and then it comes back with an error saying I do not have permissions to save. However, I do, and I tested it out with other types of files which I can save as or even save and replace the existing file. It is only an issue with PDFs, and the PC is Windows 7 running Adobe Reader XI.

Well, how difficult could it be to fix such an obvious bug not allowing to overwrite existing files. And how many upgrades did you release since I reported this one year ago? What stupid kind of policy is this to fix non-security bugs only in next major (x+1) release?

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