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Just installed CS6 about a month ago and at different points of taxing the program and my system and on various tools or events in Photoshop, I get an error that tells me there is not enough ram to complete the task.
I've read a few other folks are having this issue - but the answer for them is usually a 32-bit/low amount of memory to begin with.
I'm using CS6 Extended 64-bit and my comp specs are:
Windows 7 Pro
16 gigs of DDR3 memory
Intel i-7 second gen chip
ATI Radeon 5500 with 2 gigs onboard memory
And all of my stuff is up to date - including PS. I've allocated 75% of the system memory to PS in the preferences.
Thoughts?

Final update as the problem seems to now be fixed.
I installed a second 1TB HDD that is completely empty and dedicated it as a scratch disk for PS. I then opened an image in PS and immediately got the error message that "could not complete command due to not enough memory (RAM)".
I restarted everything and tried to open the image again and got the same error message. So I went back to the forums and started looking. Found a post that suggested that you hold down Control-ALT-Shift while PS opens and reset all of the preferences in PS. I did and I haven't had a single issue since I did that.
I'm not sure why or how - but perhaps in the download and install of the latest version of PS things got scrambled.
Hope this discovery can help others as I did find a lot of folks complaining about the same error.

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