Damaged Ai file opening

[camryna10528936]

Hi! I have been having trouble opening a file I made years ago. I guess I was excited about this project, and I put an exclaimation point in an AI file name (Learned my lesson there). Thats the only reason I can come up with as to why this file won't open. This file is from 2021, I have given up and retried many times to open it. I have: 

- Made a copy, saved as any file type I can think of 

- Taken all punctuation out, renamed files

- Tried to open in PS, acrobat, even distiller for EPS formats

- Tried to download a previous version of illustrator, they only offer the current and previous year.

Besides digging out my old laptop to see if I can get anything to work on it, I'm out of options. This is a personal project file so its not like anything is at risk as far as client/job info, I just really would like to finish this project without starting over! Also I cannot upload the file to this forum even, because the file type is not supported. I really have no idea how I managed to mess this up so bad- please help!

Any information is greatly appreciated 🙂

[Ton Frederiks]

Duplicate post, see here for replies:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/damaged-ai-file-can-t-open/m-p/15329212

[kglad]

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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