I have seen maybe 6 to 10 of these happen in the last 25 years or so.
Has anyone ever seen this and figured out why it happened?
Sometimes a TPS file gets filled with all NULLs, apparently the same number of bytes as the original file, but I don’t know that for sure.
I have suspicions about what might cause it, but no real evidence or eureka moments.
I’ve seen that with dat files and maybe TPS, but ages ago.
Mostly I associated nulled regions with Disk Drive errors/corruption. The file got copied perhaps and the original could not be read well so nulls are written
Yes I saw that back in the 90’s.
A client had had a server crash and the file was corrupted. I got them to zip and email me the tps file to “fix” it and I was amazed at how an enormous file compressed so well - until I saw it was all just nulls. So they had to go back to the last backup which was not ideal.
cheers
Geoff R
Hello
I had this case
I think it’s due to a virus or spasm
