I recently moved some text files from my desktop to external hard drive. I guess some of the files crashed, and they are recognized as binary files.

When I 'less' them, it says "may be a binary file. See it anyway?". And when I 'file' them, they look as data files.

Has anybody fixed this problem? Thank you.

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