I try to open a file I've been using everyday for 3 months and suddenly I get
a message that states "'File.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be
read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the
server the document is stored on may not be responding." Now the file is not
read only since I can look at the properties and the memory stick that the
file is on is responding because all of the other files on it are able to be
opened without a problem. I also can open the file in WordPad but it opens
with some text but mostly odd characters. Any suggestions on recovering the
data and opening the file?

Thanks