How can I recover Ai File. Which Ai file said "Can't open the illustration. Could not complete the requested operation."

Can some one help me find solution to get my art work back?
The file is open and only see a blank paper.
But the size of the file is 120000 KB.
Could some one tell me. Thank you.

I've been badly stung by this error message in the past using Illustrator CC on a capable iMac with 16GB of RAM. Even when there is clearly enough memory, it presents this specific message, but I don't think that's the problem.
I was unable to recover the file (which had embedded bitmaps), multiple artboards and was about 120MB. I lost the work so had to return to an earlier version that I had incrementally saved manually. I had also turned off PDF compatibility  in the saving options so it ended up being a useless string of XML that I couldn't reimport anywhere.
All I can advise is to be cautious when working with larger Illustrator files in the future. I have yet to find a solution to this problem (and I looked hard for a long time).

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