Why do my audio files import as loops?

Hi peeps.
Wondering if someone could help clear this one up.
Whenever i import/drag in audio files they import as loops with a little up/down arrow on the top left of the region.
This makes it very tricky to do edits as i frequently click on the arrows by mistake. It comes up with a message saying 'No related loops found'.
My only way around this is to convert them to new audio files one by one.
Any ideas what i could do to stop this happening?
Thanks!

The little double arrows indicate a feature called "Loop Family". You can see that in the Loop Browser where you have a few loops with the same name ending with consecutive numbers (01, 02, 03, etc.). These are usually variations of the same loop. When you build a song with those loops and play around with it, you can click on that arrowon the Audio Region on the Track Lane  (once you dragged a loop to your Project) and select a different loop from that "family" without manually deleting it from the Track Lane and dragging another loop onto it. It makes for a quick workflow.
Now when you have regular Audio FIles (also non-Apple Loops) that have the same name followed by the incremental numbers and import them into your project, Logic will add those arrows to the Region Header, thinking they belong to the same family. I'm not sure if this is intentially or a bug in Logic because it doesn't work consistently.
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
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