Opening Saved PDFs

When I save a PDF, say from a website or from an online class, I receive an error message when I go back later to open it. The error is: "Adobe Reader could not open 'IECA_STI-Brochure-2014.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)."
I have version 11.0.6 of Adobe Reader. I used an Adobe Forum recently because I was not able to comment on PDFs that did allow me to save and reopen. Based on the responses I realized that my version must not have loaded properly so I redownloaded and now I do have access to the "comments" section with the various icons to highlight or sticky note, etc...but most PDFs are unable to save. Do I have to redownload again?? Is it still not fully functional?
Thanks,

I first checked that the brochure downloaded fine. Are you downloading to disk so you can open it or are you trying to open in your browser (if the latter, what browser -- not all use the Adobe plugin). The save you are talking about is a browser issue, not one from Acrobat. How are you trying to save -- from the browser save or the toolbar in the plugin?
For future questions about Reader, ask in the reader forum. Your current question is generic enough that the Acrobat forum is probably fine, but this is not the Reader forum and you will likely get better answers over there.

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*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-adobe-reader-plugin-view-or-download-pdf-files
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