Followup.... On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 06:05:55PM -0700, Pete Goodeve wrote: > > Here's the output when I tried to save a new copy of the file: > > > /boot/home/config/settings/deskbar/Applications/Icon-O-Matic > > Streetpaint.icon > _ReadPathSourceShape() - shape references non-existing path 255 > _ReadPathSourceShape() - shape references non-existing path 255 > failed to export to buffer: General system error > Statistics > --style section size: 1057 > gradients: 0 > gradient transforms: 0 > ---path section size: 234 > --shape section size: 0 > ---total/different points: 246/97 > Error saving icon attribute: General system error > > > You said the file was a flattened message, so I hoped I could examine > it with 'message', but that doesn't work. Is there any way to do it? On closer examination, I saw that the icon file just has four initial identifier bytes. I stripped those off (with matt) and got my message listing. In fact there wasn't a 'non-existing path', but there were 401 styles! So I went in and deleted the 394 unused ones (again one by one (:-/)) and the file instantly becomes perfectly useable. Mystery solved, I guess. -- Pete --