Don't have permission to view

I keep getting the following message when trying to open PDF documents on my Mac, "The file XYZ couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." I never used to have this problem. I may have unwittingly upgraded to a new version. Can someone help me with a solution please?
Thanks
Chris

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