If you deal with a lot of files, you’d have, at some point, come across a corrupted file: the kind you can’t open or access no matter what you do. Although corrupted files are quite common on external ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: Some of my files are turning into files I can’t open. I get this message ...

Though it happens rarely, overwritten or corrupted files on your PC are a serious issue, potentially setting your valuable work back by hours, weeks or more. File corruption occurs from a variety of ...