Importing the same audio file in several session

I use a sfx of someone walking around in several sessions. In one session I modified the sound to slow it down, but not the original. But now, each time I try to import the original sound, it's the modified sound that is imported, not mthe original, and I can't seem to be able to find a way around this.
Any hints ?

How are you doing the import? If you're sure you didn't modify the original, it should be on your hard drive somewhere, and you can just drag it into the new session from the Finder.
Edits you make in the audio window are destructive, so you would have to be sure you told Logic to make a copy when you slowed it down.

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