Hence, knowing the causes might help you understand how a corrupt file produces, and prevent future file corruption nightmares.

Did you get the chance to open a file on your PC, USB drive or camera memory card, but the files are not open? This is a common sign of a file getting corrupted. As we have observed, the corruption error happens most frequently to specific file types including jpeg/jpg photos, gif images, Excel & Word documents, Zip compressed files, and browser downloaded files.