How to fix error code -43

I recently saved a doc after making some changes and now I'm not able to open it without receiving error code -43. Finder keeps telling me that the alias can't be opened because the original item can't be found. It was an excel document transferred from another mac but my system opens it, and changes were made, in Numbers.

Please help!

Posted on Feb 19, 2018 8:40 AM

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