Disappearing data in Numbers

I was finishing a longish spreadsheet in Numbers this afternoon and after saving it and closing Numbers, I had to reopen the file to print it again and to my utter shock all the data in the rows except the header row had disappeared. In Cover Flow in Finder, I still see all the data, but when I open the file, I get a blank file with just my header row.
Anybody knows how I can recover this file?
Thanks.

Elsita wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
However, do you know of a way to recover the file?
NO
When a file is wrongly saved, the datas are lost PERIOD.
May I mention that I find it really silly reading messages like yours assuming people have no computer skills and are ignorant.
I take all the necessary precautions and do have a back up file. However, I did not want to repeat the hard work I had put in the last two hours and furthermore, I wanted to flag up a problem and maybe find an easier way of recovering the data instead of having to work from the back up file.
It's exactly what I was describing as a silly behavior.
If you loose two hours of duty it's that you didn't save frequently.
Every ten minutes is good pratice and this is why my autosave uses this period.
The odd saving process may have different reasons:
(1) a physical oddity, a short electric breakdown is one of the possible ones.
a problem with the HD or with the ram can't be rejected.
(2) one or several bugs in the application.
I'm pretty sure that such bugs exist and I sent several examples of corrupted files to Apple Bugs Hunters.
We have to wait for a correction and before its delivery, we must work a more careful way that what you did.
I may understand that you don't like what I wrote but applying that is the best thing to do to reduce the risks
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 22 juillet 2009 21:57:39)

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