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To my own surprise I have seen a corrupted file in 2022. Only 70 MB, so really tiny compared to many files handled today.

The file had been built in Europe and after installing it to a US system we wondered why it did not work.

Haven't seen anything like that for many years so it took us a while to even consider the option that it could be corrupted.

(No, we did not spend any time to check whether corruption showed any interesting pattern like a single bit flip, a block of zeros or anything like that. Transferring it again just did it.)



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