Memory Error. Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM). But I have 24GB of memory. What do I do?

I get the subject error but what do I do but reload. Surely 24 GB is plenty of memory. I can only load 5 RAW files for editing. Otherwise the subject error.

Hi ,
This is the matrix of RAM availability to PSE
Photoshop Elements
OS version
Maximum amount of RAM that PSE can use
PSE 13 or earlier
Windows 32 bit
1.7 GB
PSE 12 or earlier
Windows 64 bit
3.2 GB
PSE 13
Windows 64 bit
As much RAM as you can fit in your computer

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Error, could no complete your request because the is not enough memory ram photoshop . My Pc this 16G ram, Help

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What request did you make?
Seriously, what did you try to do that yielded that message? Also, please give some details about your system besides how much RAM it has. For starters, what OS and version of Photoshop?
-Noel

Error Message - Couldn't complete your request because there is not enough memory

I'm using Adobe CS5 Extended on a PC running under Windows Vista Home Premium with 4GB RAM. When I complete editing a RAW file in ACR and choose to Open Image into Photoshop, I often receive an error message "Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)". However, Task Manager shows that about 2.5 GB of RAM is in use, the rest is free. Any ideas?

First, an apology - to John as his original post appears to have got somewhat hijacked.
Noel Carboni wrote:
Did you even TRY the advice given? You have to make the change in the Preferences - Performance panel, then close and restart Photoshop to test it.
YES I did actually - made absolutely no difference whatsoever.
Noel Carboni wrote:
You ARE aware you're talking to just other users here, right? We're just regular folks who have LONG SINCE figured out that we need bigger machines to work on large Photoshop images.
I don't actually class 22MB as a large Photoshop image - you might, I don't. If it had multiple layers, or I was doing massive amounts of processing, fair enough, but just opening the file from ACR?
As for upgrading the machine to open the files, this is Adobe's official requirement for CS5.1:
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The machine way excedes the requirements, so, I stand by what I said before.
Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

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I saved a file last night and now this morning I get an error message stating: "Photoshop CS5.1 Extended: Could not complete your request because there are too many Files Open. Try closing some windows and try again.". I've rebooted the system and made sure Photoshop was the only program running and that there were no other files open prior to trying to open my file. I increased Photoshops ram usage, checked the OpenGL settings, 3D and VRAM settings, cleared my temp files and am at a loss for opening this file.
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No, more VRAM is useless. I had the same thought as you so I tried with a friend's computer with 3GB of VRAM for 8GB RAM (mine has 1GB VRAM for 16GB RAM). Still got the same error message. Sorry guys but our files are lost until Adobe fix the error in Photoshop code. I hope in the future they will find a way to either fix this error or give a clear limitation, it is really a shame such a dangerous problem exists and persists for more than 3 photoshop gen.
Still you may be able to have at least a flat image of your latest file by trying to open the file as smart object. I started my work over by doing that. Not a lot but better than nothing.
However for my new file I am trying something different : Each time I think a 3D file is final, I do not rasterize it but make it into a smart object and save the new smart object into a single separated .psd file. If any change is needed I can still edit all of my 3D objects by opening them separately. So far it works, the global file is lighter with few to no 3D objects inside but I will not say it is a 100% no-risk method yet.
Last advice I can give everyone : Before closing the file you are working on, save it as a copy (File / Save as... and check 'As copy' in the options below) then with your main file still open, try to open the copy. You may need a lot of memory if your file is heavy but still if the dreaded error message appears when you try to open the copy then remove or rasterize some 3D objects in your main one. Save again as copy and try to open the copy until you do not get the message anymore.

Could nt complete your request because source and destination files are the same

Hi, thank you for reading.
I'm having this problem and it's driving me nuts.
I'm actually following a tutorial that you can check out here: http://nightshifted.tumblr.com/post/2559360661/tutorial-paused-animations
basically I'm trying to do a animated gif with canvas (I'm sorry if my english is not so great). when I try to drag the layers into the canvas (step 2 of the tutorial), I get the error: "could not complete your request because source and destination are the same".
can anybody help me? I have both CS3 and CS5 and they the error appears in both.
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I think they mean select the layers and frames and using the move tool, drag
inside the document (click inside the document window and drag) to move the
selected layers to the top half (transparent area), not to drag the layers from
the layers palette into the document, which would give that error.
MTSTUNER

CS2 Error Could not complete your Request because there is not enough memory (RAM)"

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3) Started with .jpg, right click COPY then opened Illustrator, started a new blank document and then PASTE.
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Thanks for the response. OK... This is the first day I have been able to get back to the problem.
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I got to thinking after I had done all of this that I wished I had tried to open a file in Photoshop today prior to creating the guest account to see if it still had the problem in my main user account.
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Did you update or change or plug-in or remove anything else on your computer just before it happened? Photoshop relies on other system libraries to do things and maybe one of those changed.
No, I did not change anything; I was editing pictures - from a quadding trip where they asked me to shoot for them - and suddenly I started getting the message on most pictures.
Hard drives are not nearly full. (.99 TB free on media drive and 588 GB free on OS {C} Drive)
scandisk error check? I probably need that.. (I've had some problems with BSOD and had the BIOS corrupted recently that I had to flash the BIOS again. Could that cause something like this?)
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If I can't get it working soon, I'll re-install. I have the Production Premium CS4 version - can I just reinstall PS or would I have to do the whole suite?
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As with all unexplainable Photoshop-problems you might try trashing the prefs (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed) by keeping command-alt-shift pressed on starting the program or starting from a new user-account.
System Maintenance (repairing permissions, purging PRAM, running cron-scripts, cleaning caches, etc.) might also be beneficial, Onyx has been recommended for such tasks.
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