In general, a corrupted file will not open at all or show an error message when you try to open it. But if the wrong information is written to a file, or the right information is written in the wrong place, the data will be garbled and scrambled, leaving you with a corrupted file. Thus, if the right information is in the right part of the files, it will work well. In fact, every file on your system has certain structure and content. The corrupted files are computer files that suddenly become inoperable or unusable.