Suddenly Safari will not save PDFs on my Mac; why?

Two days ago Safari started refusing to save PDFs. I have emptied the cache, trashed the com.apple.Safari.plist but nothing has worked. Help!

Hi ...
If you have trouble with saving PDF's again ...
There's another way to clear the Safari cache and sometimes does a more thorough job than from the Safari menu bar.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

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