Content unreadable#

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A file whose contents cannot be read is flagged, saying why: it holds nothing beside siblings that hold something (an empty output), it is empty, it is empty and untouched since before a set date, it is a link the archive left in place of the file, it is a link to somewhere outside the data or to something gone, or it is not an ordinary file; inside an installed program, where empty files are ordinary, it is only marked.

content_unreadable version 7

Kind of rule: What is raised for attention (flags). Raises something for a person’s attention without concluding anything.
What it concludes: a finding
Reasoning: defeasible. A conclusion is usually right, and is retracted when a rule it names concludes against it.
What it reads: one file at a time

Is it available in this version?#

Yes. The engine runs it.

What would defeat it#

A finding is never withdrawn. When any of these rules also concludes about the same thing, the finding records it:

installed_software_in_folder: A folder is recognized as an installed program, such as a copy of Fiji or a Python environment, from the parts it holds, a name ending .app, its program-style subfolders or a majority of program files; its files are still indexed and read, and rules about experiments leave them alone.

This rule is named as what would defeat:

copies_by_sampled_digest

Parameters#

Parameter	Shipped value	May be	What it does
`notes_as_names`	`true`	yes or no	Whether an empty file whose name is a sentence is a note.
`minimum_words`	`4`	whole number, from 2 to 50	The fewest words a note’s name holds. Tuned together in the three rules that read it: the note rule, content_unreadable and empty_replicate_is_no_data_point.
`note_extensions`	`["txt", "text", "md", "(none)"]`	list of text	The extensions a note is written with; (none) for none. Tuned together in the three rules that read it: the note rule, content_unreadable and empty_replicate_is_no_data_point.
`written_before`	`"2025-09-16T00:00:00Z"`	text	An empty file nothing has written to since this date is raised as dehydrated or archived rather than merely empty. Written as a date and resolved once, so two runs a year apart agree; a blank raises everything empty as empty.