Why don't Photoshop and Illustrator open my files?

Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 are not opening two .psd and .ai files I made three weeks ago with the same CS6 programs on the same Macbook. I tried to open them either directly doble-clicking on the files than opening them from the programs, but it always come a sort of "the program can not open this file".
What can I do to solve this problem?
Thank you!

AriannaJuri, Are you sure the files that you are opening are not corrupted?
Were they saved properly at the time when you worked on them Last!
Edit: Can you try opening them on a diff system.
- Nitin
Message was edited by: Nitin Gupta aka LP

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