Originally posted by davey23uk
he edited it, he wasnt copying contents from it - he was editing it, which is stupidity as it clearly shouldnt be edited

Read what is written next time
I may be way off the mark here (its been a while since I played with SPfiles) but isn't it possible to corrupt them if you alter a parameter online and do a typo on the parameter value whilst doing it?

Apologies in advance if I'm talking crap.