@WillMulligan @VenkataKondepati
Freeze / Crash on any Copy process in 3.5 are described elsewhere under Questions, but not yet accepted as a bug as far as I know. Please lodge cases so we can get this looked at properly.
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/copy-issues-in-pro-3-5-1-3-5-2-3-5-3-help-diagnos...
Are you adding empty straight text boxes or does it occur with rectangle, poly or dynamic text as well?
I have seen some weirdness in re-sizing text boxes. If feasible I switch them between rectangle text and straight text and back which sometimes fixes it.
With 3.5.x whenever I can, I try to use the CTRL+Click & Drag method to duplicate items in a layout (works for both the Contents pane and in the Layout itself.
For copying map content to another map you can drag the destination map outside of the main Pro window and then drag from the source map's Contents Pane into the other map. For me, copying map layers is the most likely user interaction to cause the first freeze, which seems to then get worse the longer you ignore it.
On a slower computer the increasing duration of these freezes may not be obvious, and the first major thing you experience is a blackout of the Pro windows or a full crash.
I wonder if changing the Display rendering Options resets something in Pro as changing the quality or acceleration setting seem to fix things for a while until the next driver/Windows/Nvidia/AMD/Intel/Pro update at which point changing the setting back 'fixes' things again. I have not yet found a consistent combo that 'just works'; more of a it works after changing, no matter what I change it to.
It may have more of an effect on lower spec machines.
When doing dumps & logs, try to replicate the issue with data that does not point to anything commercially in confidence or PII; you don't want to have to write a please explain to a client/citizen.
