This article is from the Miscellaneous Macintosh FAQ, by Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@shock.njit.edu with numerous contributions by others.
Your icons have passed on to a better place, but with a little
magic it's normally possible to resurrect them. Several utilities
including Norton Utilities for the Mac and the freeware drag-and-drop
utility Save-A-BNDL should retrieve your icons. See
<URL:ftp://ftp.macfaq.com/pub/>
Rebuilding the desktop (Question 4.3 in the Introductory FAQ)
should also restore your icons.
 
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