Suddenly can't open file

I have only ever had one version of InDesign on my computer, version CS5.5. Last month I worked on a file with no problem, then today I just went to revise it and I suddenly get the message "Cannot open file because it was saved with a newer version of Adobe InDesign (CS 6.0). There is no way this could have happened because the file has not budged from my computer since I worked on it and I certainly have no more recent version of ID. Even the file info says the file is in CS 5.5 format. What can I do?

Thanks for your reply. I am the only person using this computer (it's a personal laptop) and I can assure you that nobody else has looked at this file. However, I'd much appreciate someone opening it and re-saving it as CS 5.5 (even though the file itself says the file is in version CS 5.5). But how or where where can I link the file? It appears I can't attach the file to my post here.

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