Question for illustrator cs5

I made file in Cs3 edited in cs5 saved in cs5 now i cant open it in cs5 i gave me the option open with but illustrator is not in the list
what do i do?

Never heard of ignore effscts for this.
Couple way to solve this
CMD Click on the already selected top element, to select the element underneath.
You may have used the visiblilty eyeball in the appearance pallette to temporarily hide the drop shadow
You can use CMD 3 to hide selected top elements, make the change you need, then Opt CMD 3 to unhide
For #1 to work, don't click too fast, or else your clicks will register as a double click rather than a 2nd clikc (depending on what you have set in you Keyboard preferences).
I mention #3 cause this is a very useful tool for cleaning up and grouping complex documents, when you want to select multiple elements.

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