Theme duplication and Shopify CLI not working as expected

Working on a legacy theme that more or less hasn’t been touched in a couple years. Having two separate issues that may or may not be related.

  1. Duplicating the live/production theme works, but results in various missing images in the /assets folder (see Shopify code editor screenshot).

  2. Using Shopify CLI (v3.71.1) to shopify theme pull either the production or production duplicate themes, those same images are listed in the /assets folder and despite having none zero file sizes, are not able to be opened or viewed in any way (see VSCode screenshot), resulting in a broken theme.

Any ideas? Thank you!

Update: Did some testing and it was only after running shopify theme push with some local changes that the remote theme on the store broke. I tested by re-duplicating the prod theme and the images were intact.

So the issue is isolated to Shopify CLI and pulling the theme (shopify theme pull) down from the store. Also noticed it’s not only the images in /assets that are broken but the font files as well.