I've been using an SSD that has had to run chkdisk multiple times because of power outages. I recently switched to Linux and noticed these found.00x folders appearing, which I hadn't paid much attention to before. They contain files with a .chk extension, and some of these files are actually image, PSD, and text files. The images open just fine, but when I try to open the text files, my text editor crashes. Is this behavior normal, or could it be a sign of malware?
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Those found.00x folders are actually created by Windows' chkdsk utility whenever it detects problems with the file system. It moves corrupted files there and renames them with .chk extensions. As for why the text files are causing your editor to crash, that's likely because they contain malformed data or binary content that the editor can't handle. This happens sometimes when attempting to open non-text files as text.
That makes sense! But it's still weird that the image files in those folders work fine. I can open them without any issues.