![]() Worst cases result in complete failure of the storage, and send you to your backups, but minor errors and ‘bit rot’ appear more common. Hard disks are well-known for developing errors and ‘bad blocks’ which can corrupt files, and regardless of some claims this remains true to a lesser extent in SSDs. But it can still happen, even with protections such as sandboxes. Thankfully that’s now unusual, and accidental modification of files by other apps should be a rarity. ![]() At that time, many apps used to write data using low-level commands for speed. There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for wobbly apps, often just as they were about to crash, wreaking destruction among files stored on disk. I’m concerned here with the latter three and their variations.
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