Trouble drag&drop files - I don't get what I drag in

[Sir Hannes]

I am on PT12.5 an several times there's an issue when I drag and drop audio files into protools (e.g. from Soundly). There's crazy action with the file ID, I guess. Example: I mark an snippet from a car interior and drag this from Soundly into PT. What I get is the same length in my session, but whats inside is: "wind dark eekie" and PT plays also this! I tried several times, but could not import that car interior.
So I deleted "wind dark eekie" and start again. But it's almost the same: I'll get instead of "wind dark eekie" another "wind with gusts".

I solved this when first drag and drop to OSX desktop and than import it to protools. But that's now the way it should be

[Inglesworth]

Since upgrading to PT12, i have noticed that if I import a file with an illegal character somewhere in the name, the clip that shows up in my session is actually a copy of the last clip that I imported without the illegal character. You may want to just double check that the file you are attempting to import does not have an illegal character in the name.

[Sir Hannes]

Well, this "bug" (?) stopped after a while. In meantime soundly helped with the hint setting different sample rate inside soundly so PT must convert it first before importing.
good: it works
bad: it takes time

[jahtao]

Think they fixed this one in subsequent updates.

Look at the rogue file in workspace (the one that keeps populating the clips you drop in), and you'll see it has no file ID, and perhaps some other unusual column entries. Delete it and any other similar looking clips and you'll be fine.

But mostly just update to 12.8.1 or 2.