Captivate - Fatal Crash

I have been working on a file with advanced actions. Captivate quit without any error message or warning. I had 2 files open, the one I was working and another one. Both files have completely disappeared from my computer. I know the name of both files and where I stored them and they are no longer there. The preceding version is there which means I have lost about 2 days work. I'm working on a MAC OSX 10.8.3 and with Captivate 6.
Any idea will be most welcome.
Thanks
Ann

Hi
I've done both. When it crashed there were at least 2, possibly 3 files open. Looking at the file structure it may be that there is a file within a file, within a file. I've attached a screen grab of the file structure.
I've tried copying the inside of the first DB file, removing the already in use.lock file (I found that one), compressing and changing the extension. Then I tried compressing the inside of the 2nd DB file with the locked file. Neither file would open and I have attached a screen shot of the error message - it's not a good one.
Thanks for your continued help.
Ann

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