BitRot Protection Failure - Anything To Be Done?

InteXX wrote:
So we seem to have a false positive. Which, as StephenB points out, isn't the best of situations either.

There are two basic scenarios I see:
-a "real' false positive (the file was never corrupted)
-a "pseudo" false positive (the file was corrupted, and was properly fixed. But the error message saying "I can't fix it" was still logged).

It might take more reports/additional logging for Netgear to sort it all out. The good news is that whatever went wrong in your case, it did not result in file corruption. And the issue resolved on its own (no more checksum errors, you can access the file, etc).

Of course for us users, the message remains that backups are needed for lots of reasons.