Numbers unsaved document retrieval.  Is it possible?

I had been working on a project in Numbers, went to save it and the spinning rainbow wheel appeared.  I let it sit for about 30 minutes and it didn't stop, so I force shut down my computer but can't retrieve the document I was working on.  Is it possible to get the document back?

(1) English is not my natural language so I will not enter a discussion about the best way to describe the system behavior. What is important is that you save when it's useful to do.
(2) When the app warns you that the document can't be saved, it's an other feature.
(a) there is a quite ridiculous case : when we decide to duplicate a document whose changes were not saved (because this doc was never saved before, see above).
In such case tell it that you really want to save the replicate and all will behave flawlessly.
(b) more annoying case, a folder impacted by the Save workflow has permissions forbidding the system to apply the wanted task. We must search which is this folder.
(ii) the file was opened from a network. If the network isn't using the HFS+ structure (most often networks use an other structure), assuming that it's time for the system to store a version too, it will refuse.
It may appear to be annoying but the correct workflow is to download the file on the local machine, work upon it. Close it when the edit task is achieved. Then and only then, move the file to the network.
I repeat what I wrote some minutes ago, there is no provision for collaborative work in iWork so, if user2 downloaded the file and work upon his copy when yo move your file on the network, your changes will be killed when user2 will move his own version to this network.
I apologize but it's not the user which decide what an application may do. It's the design team.
(iii) the file was opened from a standard HD connected to the machine. Be patient and scan the impacted folders to identify the one with wrong permissions. This problem is not rare after installing an update. This is why some helpers wrote, from time to time : « run System Utility to repair permissions after an update ».
My own experience is that since I dropped delta updaters (the ones applied thru Software Updater) applying always combo updaters, I never got this kind of permissions problem. But maybe it's because I'm lucky or because I have so bad temper that such problems take care to strike elsewhere.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 18 avril 2012
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.3
My Box account  is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

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