FARR stopped displaying all alias icons after trying to create new icon

[daddydave]

I was trying to improve on the duckduckgo icon (the original one being the favicon from the site, I was trying to make a new one using Screenshot captor.)
I was using Paint.net and an addon for .ico.. and I was experimenting with multiple sizes in the source file (including an odd suggestion of 121x121 which was the same size as the original image). Then I decided I only needed 64x64 or 32x32 and tried those. At some point FARR seemed to decide to display a generic icon for every alias, whether it was Core or MyCustom. I double checked the aliases to make sure I didn't do something besides creating a new image, like screw up the icon path. I restarted FARR, deleted the Windows icon cache, restored an older copy of FindAndRunRobot.ini from 4 hours ago, deleted the duckduckgo.ico file, and rebooted, so I am not sure what else to try to get FARR to display alias icons again.

[mouser]

Ok so first things first, you shouldnt be able to cause any problems by anything you are doing.

But it's possible that somehow your windows icon cache got flumoxed.

So a good thing to try is to rebuild your windows icon cache.

Two ways to rebuild:

• http://www.sevenforu...n-cache-rebuild.html
• http://www.thewindow...icon-cache-rebuilder

Let me know if that solves the problem.. I'm really not sure how you could cause this problem even if you wanted to.

One thing you could try is, after you rebuild the windows icon cache, go to the folder of these aliases and make sure that windows explorer is displaying the icon files correctly.  That is, see if its a problem with your windows shell drawing the icons rather than a farr-specific problem.

[daddydave]

I did try deleting IconCache.db and rebooting.
The icons look fine in Windows Explorer.

[mouser]

I wonder if maybe ONE of the icons is corrupted and it's breaking farr's icon rendering.
Can you look for any possible icon file that you may have changed that is broken?

[daddydave]

The icons look fine in Windows Explorer.

-daddydave (July 29, 2012, 07:56 AM)

But..I just noticed I am getting generic looking icons in Firefox downloads as well! I don't think that was the case before.

And speaking of downloads, that thing I downloaded from the free-icon-editor .com domain with 4 giant ad banners every time it launched, that I immediately deleted, was probably malware and I bet it screwed up something with my .ico association.

[daddydave]

Uninstalling and reinstalling FARR fixed the problem.

I had renamed:
Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot
"C:\Program Files (x86)\FindAndRunRobot"

I had renamed those folders previously but reinstalled without an uninstall and that didn't work.

But after uninstall and reinstall the problem is fixed and I was able to put back my existing "Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\FindAndRunRobot" and it remains fixed. Weird.

[daddydave]

I wonder if maybe ONE of the icons is corrupted and it's breaking farr's icon rendering.
Can you look for any possible icon file that you may have changed that is broken?

-mouser (July 29, 2012, 03:18 PM)

I was thinking this too, and I was only working on the one .ico file, so I would think it would be that one if that's the case. Now that I seem to have arrived at a way to fix it, I am going to try to re-create the "icon of death." No luck so far.