Not enough Memory to open the illustration, but you take enough of my money to make this work...

Sorry for your frustration, but we are mostly expert users here to help you. Please provide more detail, if you wish us to help you.

I would recommend a 16gb ram minimum. You should also try restarting your machine to flush out any ram corruption and to give back ram to your OS that another apps might be using.

Hello @Cowgirl Creativity,

We understand that encountering technical issues can be frustrating. We are here to help and would like to suggest trying the steps shared in this help article (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/not-enough-memory-illustrator-cc.html). If you don't mind, could you please follow the steps and share your observations with us? We appreciate your time and effort in helping us resolve this issue.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

This is a public forum, 95% of people aren't even staff.

Please tell us which system and version of Illustrator you are using and the hardware specifications.

How large is the file and what's in it? Did you create the file in Illustrator or is this some other file format?