What is this icon on drawing views? Is it related to crashes?

Solidworks hangs every time I try to save a particular drawing file. I can't even make a PDF of it without it hanging indefinitely. I tried our VAR, who walked me through copying the sheets out into a new file, but it didn't help. They said the file is corrupt and there is no solution.

In trying to save this file I also noticed this hourglass icon on all the drawing views. The only information I found was a single reference to "view regeneration" from 15 years ago. 

Any idea if this is related to the crashes, and whether addressing it could help provide a solution?