Illustrator is writing corrupted files

Illustrator CC up-to-date, German
Mac Intel 10.7.5, German
Just saved file can't be reopened.
Error message window:
Die Illustration kann nicht geöffnet werden. Die Illustration enthält einen falschen oder verbotenen Operator:
Verbotener Operator: inf
Kontext: % 0J 0 J 0.5 w 10 M []0 d
% 1XR
% 2 0 Gx 1 Gp GX
% 1 -1 3 1 -1 Gf
% 0 O
% inf
If opened anyway several layers are missing.
8 of about 30 files generated yesterday were corrupted. No pattern recognizable when it will happen.
No hint of an error occurring during working on or saving the files.
Neither restarting Illustrator nor the whole Mac helps.
What to do? There's quite an amount of work in these files.

ms,
Apart from the future precaution of your trying to avoid its happening again by saving to your harddisk rather than externally, as Monika is referring to as a quite likely source of file corruption,
you may try this Recovery Toolbox for free,
http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_illustrator.html
and licence it (for a year) if it proves to work.
There are ways of trying to recover files yourself, but they are rather difficult and hard to bring to succeed.
You can read on here,
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-damaged-illustrator-files.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50032.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/500/cpsid_50031.html
http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/

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It is always recommended here to open/save your documents from/to your own harddisk, then copy to external media/servers/whatever as backup.
You may be lucky (for a while), but the chances of file corruption and other unpleasantnesses are immensely greater when you use anything but the harddisk.
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Here is a website where you can see whether it can rescue the file, and if it can, you may pay for a subscription to have it done,
http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/buy_illustrator.html
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http://daxxter.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/how-to-recover-a-corrupted-illustrator-ai-file/
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/troubleshoot-damaged-illustrator-files.html
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