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You could try to check the access rights for your EPiServer CMS file manager. Perhaps you do not have sufficient access rights to create a page file folder in your file manager? What EPiServer CMS wiill do when you edit an image (and chose not to overwrite the original image file) is to create a page files folder and save the edited image as a copy there.
Not sure if this is the problem, but it is worth a try