My keynote presentation file disappeared from hard drive ?

Hello,
Something very mysterious happened to me yesterday.
I've been working on a keynote presentation for a week.
I precise that it was my first professional work on my brand new
I7 Imac on Maverick, I am used to Snow leopard on a MacBook Pro
I've been working on for 7 years. I'm very new to Keynote (it's the 6.1 version)
and Maverick, but very familiar with OSX.
Yesterday, I imported many different files to my presentation by mistake,
it crashed keynote. Then, I cleaned up the folder containing all those
imported files, deleting some of them. I restarted Keynote, and there was nothing
in the "open recent" menu.
Impossible to find my .key file anywhere on the hard drive !!
Thinking that I maybe trashed it and emptied trash, I used many
data recovery softwares, in vain. My file has just disapeared, I can't believe
it ! The file is still in my "recent items" of Apple menu but impossible to locate
it with "open finder location" option.
In 30 years of using computers, It's my first mystical experience...
Anyone, found a way to recover the mysteriously vanished .key files ?
thanks for your help.

Just make sure it didn't end up in the cloud. If you open keynote, you get a choice.

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