Damaged files?

Using DiskWarrior to examine hard drives on 2 different Macs, an Intel MacBook Pro running OS 10.8.1 and on a G5 PPC running OS 10.5.8, the same file is reported to be damaged on both computers. The file is ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist. The file appears to be blank when viewed in the Finder and attempting to open it results in the following message: The document “com.apple.iphotomosaic.plist” could not be opened.
Is this file actually damaged and specifically what does it do? If it is related to iPhoto, moving it to the desktop and launching iPhoto doesn’t result in a new plist file being created.

Shootist007 wrote:
And I suggest you stop Mucking around in .Plist files.
First of all, I am not mucking around. The reason for the question had its roots in a hard drive problem reported by Carbon Copy Cloner. Disk Utility was not able to repair the disk but DiskWarrrior did. I then decided to run DiskWarrior on a second Mac to see what it might find.
Regarding your opinion of DiskWarrior, it gets a “5 Mouse” rating from MacWorld and an excellent rating from PC Mag. In fact, PCMag.com states: “Disk Utility is good enough for regular maintenance and partitioning tasks, but when the directory structure on my disk gets badly damaged—and that's happened to me more than once—the only program that can fix the problem is a third-party disk utility named DiskWarrior.”
MacTech, the magazine for Developers, states: “We’ve been big fans of DiskWarrior for years. It’s a great utility, and it has saved our butts more than once.”
Regarding plist files:
plist files are basically “Preference Files.” If you delete one, a new file will be created the next time the application it belongs to launches. Then, you may have to reset your preferences. Deleting such a file has been recommended when an application is not behaving properly. I have done exactly that in the past with success.
And, by the way, Symbolic Links appear the same as Aliases in the Finder. There are differences but that's what they look like in the Finder. They do not look like the blank file that I described in my original post.
Thanks for your interest.

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Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:52:11 -0600
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To: [email protected]
Subject: acrobat 9 pro seems to be damaging files, why?
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