Not Enough RAM? 12gb of Memory on iMac

I just started getting the "Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)." error and now I cannot do anything in Photoshop CC at all. It started before the most recent update, after updating Photoshop it only got worse. I cant even get to the Preferences menu without the error coming up. I also noticed that when I open photoshop it will appear with a completely empty workspace.
Any suggestions here? I dont feel like it is because I dont have enough RAM all of a sudden.
My iMac is
27-inch Mid 2011
3.4 GHz Intel
12GB 1333 MHz DDR3
OSX 10.9.2
Thanks for your help

gator soup wrote:
did you try
rebooting the machine
trashing Photoshop preferences
running Disk Utility> Repair Disk (Repair Permissions)
running Cocktail OSX to clear caches
testing in a new user account
looking at font issues
disabling any non-default Photoshop plugins
disabling any system haxies
I went through steps 1-5. I didn't have any results until I tested the same tasks as a new apple user. Worked fine with a new user.
When I originally did step 2 I re-created my preferences (cmd+opt+shft while opening photoshop) instead of deleting them. I went back and removed some of the main preference files along with my workspaces (since I noticed the workspace being empty when starting photoshop). This has solved the problem so far. Thanks for the help.
For reference, Adobe has a list to help locate all the photoshop preference files: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/preference-file-names-locations-photoshop1.html

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