<p>I have seen this error come up frequently on Mac machines for no discernable reason. But the good news is that the problem can often be minimized by running ENVI with the -outofprocess flag set. Check out this help article for information about how that works:</p>
<p>"Working around crashes to the OS using the -outofprocess flag"</p>
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http://www.exelisvis.com/...-Flag.aspx</p>
<p>The behavior reported in that help article is different than what you are seeing, but I think running ENVI in this way might help you.</p>
<p>- Peg</p>