Why is Lightroom 5.3 corrupting my RAW files?

Running on my MacBook Pro OS X 10.7.5, sporadic RAW files are now being corrupted between the time I 'Backup LR' at day's end shutdown, and then open LR the next day to continue working.
A RAW image file that was perfect the day before, now appears with the warning "The file appears to be unsupported or damaged." across it in the 'Develop' module screen.
When upgrading to 5.0 (5.3 now) two weeks ago, I followed exactly the 'best practices' guidelines of Michael Reichman/Jeff Schewe LR5 video tutorial.
I've been a LR user since the very beginning, and have been shooting professionally for 30 years. What in the world is going on with Adobe that for the first time in my career, I am losing image files due to corruption w/in Lightroom?!?

Try opening the files in preview to see if it is Lightroom that is confused (i.e. catalog corruption). Also check your backup files with preview whether they open. Also check whether you have correct permissions on the folder the files are in. Incorrect permissions there sometimes leads to error messages in Lightroom. It is quite unlikley that Lightroom is damaging your files. It is usually hardware problems like a harddisk going bad if your files are becoming corrupted. Lightroom as a rule does not write to your files (except maybe if they are dngs and you have "automatically write changes into xmp" turned on. Run Disk Utility on the drive to see if there are any issues that the OS can fix. If this is your startup disk, you might have to boot from the recovery partition to repair any damage.

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