Photoshop won't save/overwrite an image

This is with Photoshop CS5.1. It goes through the process as usual, I save it, it asks if I want to overwrite the prior one, I say yes -- but when I go to upload the new image -- it hasn't changed! This just started happening last couple days -- what is the problem here, anyone know, anyone deal with this before??
Very inconvenient!! Thanks!

I just came across this thread from a google search.
I have started to have this exact same issue recently. I think it may have started with the 10.8 server upgrade. I am seeing the issue from both a MacPro running 10.7 and a MacBook Air running 10.8. Both are runing CS5/PS 12.0.4. That has't changed in a while (both of these systems were working as normal with the same file server previously). What has changed is the server was recently upgraded to 10.8 (and now 10.8.1)--not sure if this is the issue because I can't pinpoint this issue starting exactly when this update occured.
The difficult thing about this problem is that it doesn't manifest on directories that were created prior to this issue starting for me. When I create a new directory, then I start having this issue (where I can't overwrite an existing file). This is a MAJOR PAIN IN THE BUTT because the once-awesome ability to click on the file you want to replace and have its name picked up in the Save for Web dialog and THEN OVERWRITE THE FILE is gone. What's worse, there is no fail notice, so you think it is working as before, but after checking mod date on the file it is clear it is not updating/overwriting.
I've done a check of file permisssions and even attempted to get permissions identical for all files in two dirs, one which allows overwrite and one which doesn't, to no avail.
I was having a sorta similar issue with Coda 2 saving/overwriting files to newer directories...also seems to have cropped up in same timeframe.
I will check the sys logs on my various systems and see if anything is getting logged...would love to get this issue fixed, its a major time waster to have to delete the file before writing a new one with same name.
UPDATE: nothing found in the logs, but I wasn't able to turn on AFP access logging on the server by following apple's instructions. After some further testing, I am seeing the modification date of the directory where the target overwrite file is gets updated, but the file is not written.

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