Questions tagged [file-corruption]
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I have an avi file on my desktop, but I can't delete it, move it, or modify it
I have a .avi file on my desktop, and I tried to delete it because it was corrupted, as it wouldn't play the video, but only have sound with static noises. I tried to empty the bin, but it just wouldn'...
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FTP: What happens if the file is modified while being uploaded?
I am wondering what would happen in that situation ? I tried to look online but could not find any clear answer.
Let's say I have a huge file (few GB) that I want to transfert to a FTP server.
I open ...
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Wrong video file header causes video players to fail. Any suggestions for recovering?
I have this video: Google Drive link, and it fails to be played by any video player. I tried fixing it with various tools like VLC, ffmpeg and gpac's mp4box, but none of them worked. More specifically,...
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Partition/Data inaccessible after using GParted Live to Extend Partition
I had some unallocated Free Space of 260MB on my 1TB HDD. I used Gparted Live OS to extend my HDD's Size. Gparted moved all the data to left side of the HDD and had extended the partition size. Took a ...
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Unable to decompress Password Protected Zips
I used Coolpad Note 3 lite with Android version 5.1 (lollipop). Using system's stock file manager I compressed many important files and made password protected zips & password protected nested ...
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Unzipping potentially corrupt zip file
I have the following file: onedrive.zip
When I try to unzip it:
unzip onedrive.zip
Archive: onedrive.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it ...
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File Contents Replaced with 0xFF (and a few 0x7F)
I have a corrupted word document whose data I am trying to recover. It comes from a thumb drive suspected of having virus activity; this is not the only file that has been affected. Opened it up with ...
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Virtualbox guest files keeps corrupting (differencing child hard disks)
I've Windows 10 guest on BTRFS partition. I'm periodically taking BTFRS snapshots and backing it up.
My BTRFS snapshot script checks whether there is an inaccessible machine or not before taking ...
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Windows "Location is not available" error after cold swapping drives
I powered down my PC and swapped a SATA connected SSD out with a different one and then booted up but strangely the old drives folder structure appeared. I powered down and swapped back to the ...
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OS and video file gets corrupted with repeated playback
I want to have a video that is repeatedly played back. For this, I have a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu, calling a terminal command that opens a video player with repeat flag and plays the 30-min video ...
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Can you revert the corruption?
I know this sounds stupid, but here it is: I have copied data from shadow copy and exported to the same folder, as the source, which, I believe, resulted in corruption. I don't have any other backups, ...
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Cannot open shadow copy of deleted files
I accidentally "permanently" deleted a folder from my C drive. I can see two shadow copies of the deleted folder in Shadow Explorer and was able to export the folder to an external drive, ...
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How to repair corrupt data (images) and make it readable?
I corrupted my data by taking out the SD card (which was used as internal storage) multiple times without running:
Eject/Unmount
Since using the SD card as internal storage was encrypted the card to ...
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Recorded my computer screen with Windows Game Bar when a power outage occured. How do I recover the file?
I recorded a Zoom meeting with the Windows game bar when my home had a power outage. I turned my computer back on, and found the MP4 of the recording sitting in the recordings folder. The file is ...
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Samsung 980 PRO confirmed faulty - Need to get a few video files off
I have a 2TB Samsung 980 PRO which has been confirmed faulty by samsung, it fails the samsung magician diagnostic software without even completing.
I assume the drive has some bad sectors, I've ...
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Hard disk failed, no backup - how to proceed with data recovery? [closed]
My computer has stopped working because the hard disk has broken. I used it to store important data without having a backup, and several files (.xslx, .word, .pdf) could not be recovered or they are ...
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How to fix a corrupted SRT file
I was working on this srt file sudddenly my pc got shutdown I'm pretty sure i've saved the file at some point. now when I open the file it's just a blank file with no content in it yet file file size ...
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Windows 10 automatic repair after swapping drives during hibernation
I went to sleep and when I woke up. My PC looked off so I swapped Drive A for drive B and pressed the power button.
It went into automatic repair mode and won't get past it.
Turns out that drive A was ...
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Cannot delete a .dll file [duplicate]
I downloaded Internet Download Manager from a piracy website and after downloading I tried to install it. I read the instruction manual given with the file and followed it but later I couldn't install ...
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Restoring corrupted UTF-8 files
After my PC broke down I managed to make a backup of the relevant files before reinstalling Windows.
Now that I'm restoring those files and setting the system up I noticed that some of the files got ...
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windows 10 cut off electricity then local disk D can t be accessed
It happened that the electricity was cut off and my laptop went off as it was not on battery. The problem I had afterwards is that the local disk D cannot be accessed D : \ "is not accessible. ...
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How to corrupt Ext4 journal file
For a test on my box, I need to corrupt my Ext4 journal file. Is there a way for this? (not the Ext4 file system, I am looking for it's journal corruption)
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How to fix possible corrupted files from decrypted drive?
I recently gave in my external HDD to Seagate for data recovery and they sent me back a drive with the contents encrypted (Bitlocker). I decrypted the contents but it seems like all the files are ...
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Is there anything "bad" data preservation-wise about zipping a big dir of subdirs and tons of files?
I have a "gold backup base" directory tree of 48 GB of data containing "11 411 Files, 1 054 Folders".
Since USB/ROBOCOPY/Windows takes forever to transfer many little files to all ...
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Word document corrupted or unknown file encoding
I am trying to open a corrupted Word doc. I tried different encoding options. If anyone know of a tool that I can use.
Here is a snippet output in HxD ( Hex Editor )
°qÄ<½r5!™¾=§Œ¾Âúþ¹äUiÊ(Ž?Áu\[....
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Text file possibly corrupted
I have a .tex (LaTeX) file that now ends basically like this when I open it in a text editor (VS Code / Textmate):
we may write $x=\ep\x73\x20\x65\x64\x67\x65\x20\x24\x65\x5F\x69\x24\x20\x63\x6F\x6E\...
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File corrupted on external SSD using Windows 10
It has been a while but sometimes I find corrupted files that are initially correctly saved on an external SSD. When I try to reopen them (it generally happens the day after), they are corrupt.
I'm ...
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Artifacts in multiple text files across the os
We have multiple systems running Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 that run a few docker containers that do some data acquisition and serve an UI. Once in a very long while the UI breaks because some file is ...
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How can I fix the multiple Word docs that I cannot open on my external SSD hard drive?
I have most of my Word and other docs stored on an external SSD drive. Numerous, but not all Word documents are unable to be loaded. When I try the message is as follows: "Word found unreadable ...
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Is there any way to fix undeleted files? [duplicate]
I accidently formatted a hard drive and then I used a recovery software to undelete the files.
I managed to get most of the files back, they're all with their respective sizes and folder structure, ...
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Windows chkdsk claims my disks are fine, application errors suggest otherwise
I'm running a postgres 14 database on a windows 11 machine.
Postgres has started generating some errors including the following...
ERROR: XX002: index "tableA_i1" contains corrupted page at ...
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Repair corrupted .mkv file
I have a .mkv file that got corrupted and I want to repair it or at least "remove" the parts that are damaged. It's a little over one hour long and stops playing at around 30 minutes. When I ...
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CD Reader is producing corrupt files
I have a few CDs and DVDs with music on them that I want to transfer and store on my Windows computer. Some of the disks are being read fine however some of them are being read with the audio files ...
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Hard drive messed up after dual install of windows 10
I installed windows 10 on Hard Drive B (HDB). Then plugged in Hard Drive A (HDA) so I could copy over some files.
It prompted me that I needed admin access to access the files so I clicked continue.
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Files were normal and playable, after chkdsk repair, files turned into FOUND.000 folder filled with .CHK files(Fat32 single 256g partition SD card)
I wonder what the alternatives could be.
If I did not try the scan and repair prompted by the Windows, everything probably are still normal or can be salvaged more easily.
(Fat32 single 256GB ...
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What's the rule of thumb to keep data safe in portable SSD? [duplicate]
I am well aware that SSDs in general are not ideal medium as long term shelf storage.
But if one insists on using it for that purpose, what can be done to keep files stored in SSD corrupt-free, other ...
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Only one file is extracted from huge tar archive
I have a 124GB tar archive. When I run:
tar xvf archive.tar
I get only a 1.1GB file (which is one of the expected file). What happened to the rest of the files ? Is there a way to recover them?
I ...
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Photo and Video Files Corrupted Over USB Transfer
I'm having an issue with transferring files over USB. I believe it may be a problem with the controller. The files in question are raw photo files, and video files. I'm looking for a way to ...
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How to recover a corrupt G.726 audio file?
I have an old audio file in g726 format, which I last opened three computers ago. It appears to be corrupt -- ffmpeg rejects it with Invalid data found when processing input...
It is not all zeros, so ...
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How can I hollistically determine if an mp3 file is truncated/cropped/cut short from the audio data?
I have a bunch of mp3 files, of which some got cut short (due to an unfinished download or something). I want to determine the good from the bad (i.e. the ones that cut off in the middle). There's a ...
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Excell Cell Drop Down Menu randomly lose data when attaching to an email or uploading to Google docs. How to fix?
My employer uses an excel spreadsheet with drop-down menus in some of the cells to keep track of student attendance. When I send the doc via email and upload the doc via Google Drive, sometimes a ...
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Getting a question mark box on the end of my file extension, how to fix?
I plugged in flash drive into my mac, and I've never had problems with these files before. Now there are these question mark box symbols on the end of the file extension (see screenshot for more ...
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Damage Source File due to Cancelling Copy Paste
I was copying some 20gb of important documents to my usb drive from my mac. The process got stuck midway and I had to cancel the copy paste operation. Second time doing so the usb drive got ejected by ...
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I have 3 copies of the same file, each corrupted at a different point. Is there a way to restore the original file?
Title mostly says it all. Is there a program or something that you can put your files into that would spit out the original?
imagine file copy 1: 001
imagine file copy 2: 010
imagine file copy 3: 100
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ZFS on a single partition mixed with other partitions
I work for a medical device supplier. We have on a single machine a few partitions that are SquashFS (for OS files, two OS partitions, read-only squashfs), some boot partitions (3x FAT32) and a DATA ...
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Portable older version of MS Excel - where to find?
I'm aware that this may be a bit of an X-Y problem, so I'll start from the beginning.
The latest update to MS Office at my corporate workplace has unfortunately broken my Excel application. It relies ...
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Broken/tampered Zip file
A friend of mine has sent me a zip file that they have tampered with/broke/corrupted. In this case, it is a Minecraft resource pack. I am unable to open the file at all, I have tried many many things ...
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Excel keeps saying it repaired my file, but nothing's wrong
Every time I open one of my Excel files it shows a sidebar to the left saying it has recreated it ("Återskapa dokument" in Swedish) and says I should save the one I want.
The file is opened ...
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USB Flash Drive Corrupted While Copying File (can't format)
I have a Kingston DT50/16GB USB stick that had been corrupted a couple of times where formatting would fix it. However this time, while copying a file, the USB got corrupted and wouldn't allow me to ...
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Hard Drive space used but files are in found.000 and cannot be accessed
I had used Virtualbox for a virtual machine which had froze for a long period of time and would not close by shutting it down normally. I closed it by clicking the cross and restarted my machine. I ...
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