Trouble with Pattern Brush

I have a very simple graphic that consists of three closed paths, black stroke, no fill, that I have used before to create a pattern brush. Now in another file it is telling me that the graphic contains an element that cannot be used in pattern brushes. It is the identical graphic! I solved my current problem by opening the file that has it as a pattern brush and saving the brush file and opening it in my new file. But I want to figure out why I couldn't create a pattern brush in my new file with this same graphic...any ideas?

State version of Illustrator.
Describe exactly the steps you performed to move the Pattern Brush from one file to another when you received the error. Or, provide step-by-step to reproduce the error. Or, post the problem file somewhere that others can look at it.
JET

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