HELP!! File won't open

Hi, I have been using Numbers for a couple of weeks now. I have a database I created with critical data. It was opening and working fine. Today it will not open.
I get a message...."could not be read, the database does not have a valid format"
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to recover the data?
Thanks for any help
CD

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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 1 décembre 2009 13:22:49

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