Not a valid freehand file - Help!

Hi, Can anyone please help me?
I was working on my portfolio in freehand 9 after importing
some new images. I clicked though some pages to view it all when it
became really slow. I decided to save the file and quit. When I
tried to open the file again an error came up saying 'it's not a
valid freehand file'
If anyone can help me it will save me a couple of weeks work.
Thanks
Tiny

This is a work stopper. It happens. No chance you have a back
up file still? Once the FH file is corrupted, there is no getting
back into it. I have experienced this several times over the years.
Once or twice was able to open the FH file on a different machine
in Illustrator, but not always.
If anyone else has won this battle- let us know how.
Jeffery

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