>>1465639>I likely do not have Irfanview nor do I know what it isDo not be deliberately stupid. You can google or bing the name. Just because there is inconvenience, you should not be petulant. Just get going to solve the problem at hand.
Like Notepad, Irfanview is a compact program that starts running immediately without some stupid long loading time. Thus, you can use it to look at many files.
>It is disappointing to not have the original file names When corruption occurs, assigning names to the files would be a random guessing game. So you could have names, but they would probably be wrong. It's therefore far more productive and reliable to use a name such as filename001.chk to force you to look at the file and see it is a TXT, JPG, MP3, MKV, ZIP, RAR, OGG, or MP4 file.
The simplest way to do that is to try to open up that file with an application. Notepad could be used on each to see, and then you could try your MP3 or EPUB reader. But isn't that annoying. Why not use as few programs as possible to examine a file to see what kind of file it is? That is why I recommended Irfanview. If it doesn't open the file as an image, you press F3 and it will display the hexadecimal character data for the file. It doesn't matter what random character nonsense is there as long as you see some keywords such as MP4, OGG, MKV, or ZIP in there. Or you see part of a filename you remember such as 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg. If you see that, then you can guess it is an archive file and now you can try to open that file up and retest the archive file integrity or if you used RAR with Recovery Record file protection, you can even rebuild the archive despite some data being missing or corrupted.
