Project Pro 2013 Crashing - has something to do with Global Views and or Tables?

I have 800 or so active project files in my 2013 PWA instance. I am just starting to get my head around this potential bug. I have not reproduced it yet but I have seen it a number of times. MS Project Pro randomly
freezes after one of the following actions
1) Attempting to change Gantt Chart Task text format
2) Attempting to changing from one view to another
3) Attempting to save the file
In each case this behavior is corrected by going to the Organizer and removing any and all local Views and Tables that have the same name as the a View or Table in the Global.
The fix is easy but users are pretty upset when they lost work from a multi-hour meeting.
I imagine this is a conflict with the view or table name? ?
Has anyone heard of this before? Clues?

John,
I have not seen this issue myself, nor have I found a reference to it in the fixes in the CU. Having said that, I am a little confused as to how users would have local views with the same name as the enterprise ones?
May be one thing to try is to rename the enterprise views with the word 'Enterprise' at the beginning and see if it fixes the issue?
Cheers,
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