Packaging Error: Automation Tool?

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Not sure what’s causing this all of a sudden. I was able to package just fine 2 days ago. This might be unrelated but I tried to rename the uproject file to get the .exe to be the right name when the project packages (I immediately changed it back because that didn’t work).

Already tried getting rid of the Intermediate, Saved and Config folders.

This is the part of the log that looked important:

UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Project.Cook: ********** COOK COMMAND COMPLETED **********
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Project.CopyBuildToStagingDirectory: ********** STAGE COMMAND STARTED **********
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Project.CreateStagingManifest: Creating Staging Manifest…
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Program.Main: ERROR: AutomationTool terminated with exception: System.IO.InvalidDataException: Found invalid data while decoding.
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at GroupIconResource.ReadIconHeader(BinaryReader Reader)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at GroupIconResource.FromIco(String FileName)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at BaseWinP
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): latform.StageBootstrapExecutable(DeploymentContext SC, String ExeName, String TargetFile, String StagedRelativeTargetPath, String StagedArguments)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at BaseWinPlatform.GetFilesToDeployOrStage(ProjectParams Params, DeploymentContext SC)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at Win64Platform.GetFilesToDeployOrStage(ProjectParams Params, DeploymentContext SC)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at Project.CreateStagingManifest(ProjectParams Params, DeploymentContext SC)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at Project.CopyBuildToStagingDirectory(ProjectParams Params)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at BuildCookRun.DoBuildCookRun(ProjectParams Params)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.BuildCommand.Execute()
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.Automation.Execute(List1 CommandsToExecute, CaselessDictionary1 Commands)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.Automation.Process(String[] Arguments)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.Program.MainProc(Object Param)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.InternalUtils.RunSingleInstance(Func`2 Main, Object Param)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): at AutomationTool.Program.Main()
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): Program.Main: AutomationTool exiting with ExitCode=1 (Error_Unknown)
UATHelper: Packaging (Windows (64-bit)): BUILD FAILED
PackagingResults:Error: Error Unknown Error

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Figured it out: It was the custom icon file set up in the project settings for Windows deployment.

I read on the AnswerHub that you can save a .png and in the dialog box change .png to .ico and have it work. That’s not the case. Don’t do that lol

So now I just need to find some way of saving a .ico since Photoshop doesn’t seem to have that export option. But it packages so yay!

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Thanks i have same problem, solved!