Unity Issue Tracker - Dragging a cubemap onto a scene doesn't generate skybox material, duplicates file twice instead (regression since 5.2)

Fixed in Unity 5.5.0

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Dragging a cubemap onto a scene doesn't generate skybox material, duplicates file twice instead (regression since 5.2)

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Nov 08, 2015

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Priority: 2Necessary for shipping a final release

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Severity: 2Core functionality majorly impacted

To reproduce:
1. Open attached project
2. Drag and drop "museum.hdr" file from the Project window to Scene view

Expected behavior: cubemap texture is applied to the scene
Actual behavior: duplicated texture twice in the Assets folder

Note: was not able to reproduce with .cubemap files

Reproducible with: 5.2.0f3, 5.2.2f1, 5.2.3p2, 5.3.0f4, 5.4.0a5
Not reproducible with: 5.0.4f1, 5.1.4p1