775MB Illustrator file causes Illustrator to stop responding...

I was working on a file this morning and saved it in .Ai format. This afternoon I came back to work on it again and now it won't open. Illustrator hangs, and then stops responding. Is there a way I can fix this?

I don't use Illustrator CC and could not open the file in AI CS5 as there is no .pdf part included.
Nonetheless I took a quick look at the preview in Bridge and would say that there is something terribly wrong with the physical file size. What I see there should never take about 800 MB unless you are using some weird techniques. If all that objects are simple vector shapes it would only be about KB, not MB.
Some CC users who can open the file may or may not verify my point of view.

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