Numbers will not open older files

I have Numbers '09 installed on my MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion OS. Recently I went through using Migration Assistant to move apps, adat etc., to a new MBPro 13. After this I have found that Numbers will not open many of the numbers files on either the old or the new machine--the problem probably existed before the migration but I had not had to access these files for quite a while. The message I get is simply "Numbers cannot open this file" I can see the contents in Preview and I was able to use a 3rd party service to get it converted into a .cvs file and thence to Excel. Numbers will open and create new numbers files seemingly OK. I have run repair permissions but no change.
I have seen a history of a similar problem from some time ago so I don't know if this is an old problem that has just surfaced on my machine or what.

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