Holy Cow! I Can't Open The File!

Well, it happened.
I was working on a song, and was almost finished with it.
It started to freeze the computer frequently.
I repaired permissions, and ran some third party repair software, that specifically repaired that file.
...and now Garageband won't open it.
It opens the other GB files, but not this one.
It hangs on that progress bar.
Any suggestions?
or am I just out of luck?
Doron

Well, thank you both, Christoph and Scott.
Yes, Scott, that worked. Christoph recommended it, and I went ahead and tried it. Recovered all vocals, bass, guitars...
Piecing it together is a bit of a challenge, but do-able.
Unfortunately, in the song that got lost,
I'd programmed a ton of piano and drums that I just loved.
It sounded absolutely natural, as if I'd played it,
and that stuff's gone.
That's many hours of re-do.
Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out why that happened in the first place.
Could be simply that I didn't repair permissions frequently enough while working on this song, and that allowed some wierd corruption to take place?
When I ran Norton on the HD, there were a lot of serious systemic problems that got repaired. In fact, the repairing is what made my corrupted file inaccessible.
But my other theory is that bringing in a wav. file (remember that drumroll issue?) might have caused the problem.
On the other hand, that wav file is right there in the media folder, and it seems to be fine. As a matter of fact, I re-used now in the re-construction, and it seems to pose no problem.
I don't know. Maybe all this is a little signal that I'd better start focusing on my day gig! Recording is addictive.
Doron

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