I don't know how they got corrupted, but it may have been caused by hangs 
during major filesystem activity.
Since I deleted them I can't provide some sample files, but I remember that 
there was one without a section header (e.g. "[Desktop Entry]") and trunkated 
at a random point (or at the end of a sector).
The other one consisted of just unreadable binary content (obviously from 
another file).
A simple plausibility check or validation of the file content would prevent 
such problems in the future.

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