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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: tar: Pathname too long
Date: 20 Oct 2016 00:15:09 GMT
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Happy.Hobo <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> wrote:
> On 10-19-2016 10:40, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Perhaps it wasn't *you* specifically who set the custom icon on that
>> folder. If you obtain files from someone else, custom icons can along
>> for the ride. ; )
> 
> _I_ created the folder on my Mac, along with several others.  No one 
> else has been on my Mac.

Maybe you just forgot that you set a custom icon on the folder at some
point in the past. Or perhaps a piece of software you had installed did it.
One thing is certain: the icon file didn't create itself. 

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