Help drag crossfade region problem!

[nickpowell]

I'm editing together field recordings, taking out sections where a noise pops ot too loudly, using the drag xfade function in the arrange window to make smooth edits. This works fine until I take a region previously to the left of another and place it further forward in the arrangement. Logic is creating an enormous xfade between regions even though they're not overlapping. I've looked in the manual and it clealy says drag xfade only should work to crossfade between overlapping regions. Can anyone help? It seems so illogical that such a simple activity is proving so complicated.

 

thanks