I recently installed 2010 after using 2007 and now cannot open a number of my files created in 2003 (all in 2003 because of our customer). I've been searching the forum and found there were problems with creating/saving files on external media and that you have to have compatibiity checking turned on.

1) These files were created on my hard drive, not on external media.
2) Under File|Info, compatibility is checked under prepare files.

Screen shot of message attached. Neither text recovery tool or Open & Repair worked.
Any suggestions?

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