File may be corrupt

Hi everyone yesterday I saved some matlab figures to my computer but when I tried to open the figures today, I got this error :

Error using open(line 163) Unable to read MAT-file F:\%directory% File may be corrupt

does anyone know how to fix this error or even extract the data from corrupt files, PLEASE!!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Was the error message literally about F:\%directory% ? If so then you used the wrong file name when you attempted to open the file. In MS Windows, % around a name indicates that a shell variable of that name was expected to exist and have its value substituted at that point. You need to be opening a .fig file . You might want to go in to Windows Explorer and ask it to reveal file extensions.