Howdy,
This one has me stumped. We have a Windows 2012 File Server in an AD domain with a shared folder containing jpg images. If one of our users opens the file in Windows Picture viewer, the file opens normally. If the file is rotated using the the rotate buttons, the picture rotates as expected. However, when the user clicks on either the right or left arrow to browse to the next image, a dialog box appears that says "saving" then another dialog box appears stating "Windows Photo Viewer can't save changes to this picture. Verify that the picture is not set to read-only and make sure you have permission to save to the file location, and then try again."
When we check out the security settings on the file from the file server, the inherited permissions on the file are gone. Instead, we have the default Administrator NTFS permissions. If you manually add the domain users to the security settings on the file, all the inherited permissions reappear. Our users do not have full control on the files -- they have Modify, Read & Execute, List folder contents, Read, Write permissions. I also created a security group that prohibits the users from taking ownership or changing permissions using a Deny rule.
This has become extremely unfun. We have users that need to do this all day long, and we need to constantly reset permissions on files. Anyone seen anything like this? BTW, We're aware of an issue with jpgs imported from certain iPhones that have malformed metadata and can cause a similar issue when rotating images, but that's not the case here.