Hi, All. I used to be able to drag .wav files from my desktop and drop them on a track in Sonar. Now, this seems to only be possible through the browser. Is that correct?

Maybe it dependant on the characteristics of the WAV file itself, I've just done it in X3D and it created a new track.
Cheers...

This annoys me too....I cant seem to drag anything consistently from Win Explorer into Sonar unless I am missing something.

*just tested again*

Alex is entirely correct, it depends on the codec/format etc

I wonder why that is.  Drag and drop has always worked fine for me. if i am dragging to a track.  I do wish one could drag samples into programs like SD3 from explorer

I drag-and-drop files both to and from the desktop all the time. Maybe you're trying to move an incompatible file type or something?

Thanks for your quick responses. I'm hoping there's a setting that affects this. I can drag a .wav from Sonar to the desktop, but I can't drag the very same .wav back into Sonar - except through the browser. It's hard to imagine that a file dragged out of Sonar would be incompatible with Sonar.

Seems to work here running SONAR X3d 64bit as administrator on Win7. Also, if they are broadcast waves make sure Preferences > File > Audio Data "Always Import Broadcast Waves At Their Timestamp" is not checked.

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Seems to work here running SONAR X3d 64bit as administrator on Win7. Also, if they are broadcast waves make sure Preferences > File > Audio Data "Always Import Broadcast Waves At Their Timestamp" is not checked.

It's not checked. Thanks, though. Also, I am running Sonar as an administrator.

Huh for me it's been the opposite, I never could and then the other day it just seemed to work all of a sudden. I figured they'd "fixed" it, but it looks like it may be dependent on other things.

Bizarro. I just checked X2 and it no longer works there either. This is comforting in that it appears to not be an X3 (or X2 - given that I know it used to work) issue, but makes me wonder what the heck has changed with my system that I'm no longer able to do this.