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I was using Preview to annotate a screenshot for a question on Apple.StackExchange.com and I saved it. For some reason, it only saved my annotation. I must've spaced out and accidentally pressed something, but what might that something be? enter image description here

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What version of Mac OS X are you using, and what version of Preview? – Wheat Williams Aug 18 '11 at 22:25
I was using Snow Leopard at the time. I'm on Lion now, no repro, so... – Moshe Oct 2 '11 at 20:01

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Select All and Delete would have been done the trick :) You've deleted the screenshot (which was in the background) but kept the annotations.

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This happened again! It's not that... – Moshe May 5 '11 at 17:26
Do you recall this time what happened? – RobZolkos May 6 '11 at 0:02
I annotated a screenshot and then I tried to save it. Save thing happened. – Moshe May 6 '11 at 1:47
Does it happen every time you try it or just at random? – RobZolkos May 6 '11 at 1:51
It seems to be at random. I think it's happened when I did a combination of crop and annotate, but I don't think it was consistent. – Moshe May 6 '11 at 3:51

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