This Adobe Muse site file is damaged and cannot be open.

Hi all,
While making some edits to my muse site, my mac froze, and I waited for about 10 mins and it was still frozen--so I forced restarted my computer. Upon re-opening the file, I received the message "This Adobe Muse site file is damaged and cannot be open." I was wondering if there is any way to recover the file. I have a very recent HTML export of the site, is there a way to re-import that into a muse file? Or perhaps the file is somehow able to recover? I'm on an iMac that was just bought. It's pretty frustrating because my last backup was from two weeks ago and there have been major updates to the design of the site. At the very least, I have the latest export to copy the layout from, but my site is 50+ pages. Thanks in advance for any help.
-Jack

I don't have good news. The file is truncated. It's shorter than it should be and the missing information isn't something I can manufacture.
From your description of events and looking at the information in your log file we believe you hit a rather obscure weakness in the Mac OS, or perhaps Mac hardware or the hard drives/controllers used. When an application writes to a file and requests the file be flushed to the physical media, two things occur. The first is the data is written to the physical media and the second is a table on contents on the media is updated to indicate the new length of the file. In this case it appears the Save completed successfully as far as Muse could tell (the success is reported in the log), but what probably occurred is either a very low-level OS crash and/or your restart of the computer occurred before the length of the file was updated in the table of contents.
Unfortunately, after some time spent searching online, it doesn't appear as though there are any Mac OSX tools that will re-extend a file without altering the bytes in the newly extended area. Or at least I couldn't find any (and it makes sense for security reasons that the old data wouldn't be there when the file was re-extended). Even if there is such a tool, it's very likely other activity on your machine since the restart has already overwritten those bytes with some other file, so the missing part of the file is now gone.
I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any way to recover or repair your file.

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