Articulate unresponsive, task manager says its still running fine

Jackson,

While this generally wouldn't occur while pasting an object, perhaps Storyline opened a dialog box, but by the time it did so, you had already clicked on the main Storyline window bringing it back to the foreground over the dialog box. I sometimes have this happen with Storyline, in which case I just press ALT+TAB until I see the dialog box in my row of active windows, select that window and click 'OK' or 'Cancel' or whatever is needed to close the dialog box.

Not sure if that's the issue you're experiencing but worth a look. 

Thanks Steve, I hadn't thought about trying that out!

Unfortunately when I just checked there are no dialog boxes open

Is the mouse pointer a spinning wheel, or do you see the arrow pointer? If the latter, can you move the mouse pointer around? If you see the arrow pointer, perhaps try pressing CTRL+S to see if you can save your work.

With the intent of broadening community knowledge:

I typed this into google

site: community.articulate.com/users/JacksonHamner/activity unresponsive

and found  this link

I know that I have had problems if I forget to end editing a state. I have many times thought nothing was responding, although in truth, neither of these seem to me like they are what you are experiencing right now.

Hi Jackson! 

I have seen intermittent reports, such as this one, but none that have been shared with our team to take a deeper look at. I would encourage you to work with our support team if you continue to have difficulty so that we can try to get to the bottom of the issue.