This problem occured three times before the file finally did open in CS6.
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I am using an hp laptop dv7t, it runs win 7 64bit and has an intel graphics co-processor.
The machine has a total of 6 gig of ram.
The processor is an i5 cpu M460 @ 2.53GHz.
The fact that the system had difficulty opening the .tif it has opened without further problems after re-boot several times. I've opened approximately 50more .tif files without incident.
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