Recover a Director file?

Hi there
Recently a client has come back to us to do revisions on a project we worked on years ago. To our horror we discovered that the french version and all the source files are missing and are unable to recover it. Now we still have the projector files and doing some searching online i discovered that it is possible to recover the .dir out of it but the file itself is locked (and i guess this is questionable method).
Is there a way to recover some of the contents or am i doomed to tell the client about the missing source files ? All i need is the graphical content since i still have the source files for the english version..
Any help would really be appreciated!

Here is a Director MX 2004 movie: http://nonlinear.openspark.com/tips/other/Cracker2004.zip. Open the movie as a MIAW, then click on the the button. It will ask you to choose a protected movie to open. It may ask you to create more castLibs for the movie on the Stage, and to change the number of sprite channels. If all goes well, it should retrieve all the original media for you, except for scripts and shockwave3d members.
I have not tested this with Director 11.x. I do not guarantee that it will work in your case.
I trust that no-one will use this tool in any way that any other developer might find unacceptable.

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having tried to use the Adobe website for help and then trying for
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