Let me try to clarify

For years - a decade or so - I've rendered SGUs using the .WAV command ("Save the Song as an Audio File") on the toolbar. This has always worked fine.

Recently - using 2022 & 2023 - the same command unpredictably turns the chord sheet orange and strips the SGU of all useful information leaving "Stereo 32 bit" in the Mixer column and "None" in the Plugins column of the mixer.

Sometimes .WAV works as it used to (as in my trial reported above). Sometimes it produces an orange & stripped SGU along with the rendered tracks.

I am doing nothing different from what I have always done.

My question concerns this serious new unpredictablility in how the programme responds to the .WAV command.

(Serious in that if a DAW unpredictably destroyed the source material when a render was run, the company would be out of business very quickly.)

Best - Andy