Numbers files marked as not having a valid format.

Hello Forum.
I had a power failure on my laptop. I removed my thumb drive by just pulling it out of the machine. When the computer powered back up it said the drive (which had my numbers document on it) had an improper device removal message. Now I am getting the following message on all the numbers documents that were on the thumb drive. "The document does not have a valid format".
Is there any way to read these files?
Thanks.
Sharon

I'm unable to respond without seeing such a file.
May you send one of them to my mailbox ?
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 15 juin 2010 20:58:43

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