I moved the path, saved as a new filename, closed everything, and reopened the file.
Reopened the file, it was a dorked up as it was when I saved it. I looked at the nodes themselves, and the handles are all wonky. It seems to be actually modifying the path.
The viewing in outline mode was mostly to determine if it was possibly a video card issue, or a weird stroke appearance or something got applied.
I didn’t see where you mentioned that it was happening with other files. If you haven’t, I’d check that.
Copy/paste can also copy / paste over bad code. I would also look at recreating the file from scratch. Or, at minimum, run it through an SVG cleanse.
If you’re having trouble with other files, I would delete the preferences.xml file. I know you reinstalled - but a lot of times the program doesn’t completely uninstall/reinstall. It will keep things like preference files.
Deleting the preferences solved it! Now, lets see if we can find out what in prefs was the issue. These are xml, I assume, so let’s get medieval on it with diff and a blowtorch.
The POS file is the broken one. I’ll post back if I find anything suspect. I wondered if it was due to setting up randomize criteria in the tiled clone dialog, but I backed those out and saw no improvement.