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If only all corruption could be identified with code
How I identified some corrupted files based on a hopefully good backup
HDD = hard drive doomed
A few months ago, in the midst of a midsemester crunch, I had to replace a failing hard drive on the old Dell desktop that I use as sort of my “master” computer. I do some cloud backups, but a lot of stuff like thousands of FLAC files ripped from a thousand old CDs doesn’t need to really need to sit on a remote server.
