No scroll/zoom beyond end in CS6?

Question

Hello, I just discovered this today:
The only way to expand the view beyond the end of the original 30 seconds, or beyond
the end of the current audio is to either: move a clip to the right beyond the end of the
current view or record something new beyond the end of the current view.
In AU 3 all I had to do was hold down the mouse button and move it beyond the end
and then the current view would expand to however far I dragged the mouse.
I know it might be hard to understand from this description so here's what I was doing.
I was testing the loudness of several cpu fans by recording 10 seconds of each one like this:
I selected 10 seconds then clicked record so AU would record for that 10 seconds then stop.
Then I selected the next 10 seconds and recorded that using a different fan.
That worked until I used up the 30 seconds but could not get the cursor to go beyond the
end of the view unless I started recording and let the recording go beyond 30 seconds or
grabbed a clip and dragged it beyond 30 seconds.  Then had the same problem when
I came to the end of that view.
To a programmer, it might not seem logical that one would want to select an area
beyond the view but I know that is a feature in 3.0 that I would use a lot if it worked in Cs6.
Sorry for the long story.  I hope there's a short answer.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Aah, I see what you mean. The problem occurs if you click on the buttons in the Zoom bar but not if you use the keyboard shortcuts - and = or the mouse scroll wheel. So there seems to be a bug with the Zoom Out Full buttons either in the Zoom bar or at the top right of the time bar. Also affects the \ shortcut. All seem to default to the 30sec default not to the actual length of the loaded session template.
After a bit more experimenting Zoom Out Full only zooms to the length of clips not to that of an empty session, which I suppose is logical in some cases but a nuisance for the sort of work you are doing. So the moral is don't use Zoom Out Full, use multiple shortcut key presses or the mouse wheel I'm afraid. Maybe there needs to be  an option for either variety of Zoom Out Full (Clips) or Zoom Out Full (Session).