Keynote not opening file. I've opened it many times, but now it says "because it isn't a valid Keynote document."

I have spent months working on this file and it is a very extensive project. I can't possibly redo it, so I really need some help with this. I have to be able to open this file. I've even transferred it to other drives, but it's the same error message.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!! Thanks in advanced!
-Alex

I have encountered something similar and trying to remember how I resolved it.
It may go back to file typing or OSX's privileges, or they may simply be corrupted.
In the 1st 2 cases, you can try changing the file type away from whatever it is and then try to match it against the files that actually open. FileBuddy is a good utility for this.
OSX's permissions are positively screwy sometimes. I have had read/write access set in the information and it still won't let me edit or open files, usually after a clean and/or change of User it straightens itself out.
Try repairing permissions in DiskUtility, and run DiskWarrior and TechTools Pro over your harddrive. This unfortunately takes time.
This is definitely the least favorite part of OSX's UNIX for me.
If they are corrupted nothing much you can do except take preventative measures against this next time. Get yourself a dual drive RAID harddrive like Western Digitals MyBook Pro and use OSX's TimeMachine.
I am sceptical about TimeMachine but I guess it can't hurt to try it.

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I also sent the file to my friends and they had the same problem opening it. It's very strange, I've successfully opened it before. And the problem is only with THIS file!
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As you see in the heading, I am getting the error "Unable to open file because it isn't a valid Keynote document". There has been a number of threads on this and there seems to be a usual work around that works in many cases, by changing the file extension to .zip and then looking for the index file and making some more extension changes...unfortunately, in my case (and it also happened to others), there is no index file, so the usually suggested solution doesn't work...Can someone please help? I am working on a tight deadline and would like to try and recover the file.
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