Error opening Adobe PDF in Illustrator

I'm getting the following message when I try to open a specific Adobe PDF file in Illustrator: "Could not open the file"
The details:
- I created the file yesterday in Illustrator and saved is as an Adobe PDF
- I opened the PDF in Illustrator this morning and have been working on it all day. The file started getting slow (i.e., objects moving slowly), so I saved the file and closed out. When I tried opening the file again in Illustrator, I got the message above.
- Other PDF files will open in Illustrator. The file itself will open in Adobe PDF and in Photoshop - just not in Illustrator. I also tried opening the file in Illustrator on a different computer, and that didn't work, either.
Is there any way to save this file (i.e., preserve all of the layers) and open it in Illustrator again?
Any help would be much appreciated!

Hi Monika,
Thanks for getting back to me. What do you mean by "save to networked or
removable media"? I'm working off a networked computer, but I'm saving to
the desktop, so I don't think that should be an issue, right?
Any ideas about what could have damaged the file? I can't think of anything
strange or different that I did. Is there any way at all to salvage the
file and be able to open it in Illustrator?
Thanks so much for your help,
Amanda

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