Numbers doc no longer opens

A Numbers spreadsheet that I use regularly no longer opens. It's kept on my iDisk and I have been opening and adding to it on a daily basis for a couple of years now, but now all I get is a message saying The document "name.numbers" could not be opened. I've downloaded it to the desktop incase it was a server issue but no difference. I can't even open it in any other software (Excell, Pages, Word, Text Edit etc.) as they don't even recognise it now. This is a very important document and I need to access it - any pointers?

subfish wrote:
A Numbers spreadsheet that I use regularly no longer opens. It's kept on my iDisk and I have been opening and adding to it on a daily basis for a couple of years now,
I'm really surprised because Numbers is available since one year only.
This is a very important document and I need to access it - any pointers?
It seems that your document is corrupted.
If you use your program the correct way, you have a backup allowing you to recover most of the datas.
If you choose to live dangerously, you don't have a backup and we may guess that the datas are lost for ever.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 7 mai 2008 11:26:47)

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