What are 'damaged files' on external hard drive (HFS format for OS X)?

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Published on 2010-03-16T18:36:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 18:41 UTC
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I have an external HD formatted to default HFS (Mac OS Extended - Journaled) and very once and a while I get a folder called DamagedFiles in the root of the volume. The folder contains a collection of links to files on the drive. In general the files seem fine as I am for example able to open the images or text files without a problem.

Is this serious? What can I do to fix this problem? Any advice would be great as I couldn't find anything on here or via Google that addressed this problem in particular.

Many thanks.

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What are 'damaged files' on external hard drive (HFS format for OS X)? - Developer IT

What are 'damaged files' on external hard drive (HFS format for OS X)?

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