I have been a Mac user since 1991 starting with a Quadra that operated on system 5.0, I think. I currently use primarily a MacBook using OS 10.6.6
Over the years there have been occasions when a saved document became corrupted and could not be opened, for reasons unknown to me. It was so infrequent however, I just accepted it. I also learned early on the value of backing up.
Over the past year or so, with increasing frequency, I have been encountering a mass corruption of all sorts of documents including those with extensions .doc, .pdf and even .txt. The corruption has spread to the same documents on my backup drives with the result that I have lost literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of documents I needed to retain for professional purposes as well as many of sentimental value.
I know MACs are highly resistant to viruses but there are some and I am wondering what else it could be. I run a virus protection program but no viruses have been revealed.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and/or how I might be able to recover those corrupted documents? Thank you for your time and assisstance.
Over the years there have been occasions when a saved document became corrupted and could not be opened, for reasons unknown to me. It was so infrequent however, I just accepted it. I also learned early on the value of backing up.
Over the past year or so, with increasing frequency, I have been encountering a mass corruption of all sorts of documents including those with extensions .doc, .pdf and even .txt. The corruption has spread to the same documents on my backup drives with the result that I have lost literally hundreds, perhaps thousands of documents I needed to retain for professional purposes as well as many of sentimental value.
I know MACs are highly resistant to viruses but there are some and I am wondering what else it could be. I run a virus protection program but no viruses have been revealed.
Does anyone know what could be causing this and/or how I might be able to recover those corrupted documents? Thank you for your time and assisstance.