Unable to open simulink SLX file

Hello Im, Unable to open slx file which I have created in earlier version of MATLAB 2020b. As I have seen in some related answers, I have to Open and then re-save it, but I dont have older version of MATLAB, can somebody help me to resolve this issue, below is the screenshot of error.

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That is not a problem of version incompatibility: MATLAB is saying that the file is the wrong format to be a Simulink model.
Sometimes there can be problems accessing files across network drives (especially if the file is on OneDrive) that can be solved by copying the file to a local drive. Sometimes network drives corrupt a file and make it unusable. Sometimes there are permissions problems accessing a file.
And sometimes the file just is not a Simulink model. For example a mdl file might have gotten renamed as slx, or a slx might have gotten unzipped.
You can copy the slx file and attempt to unzip it. A valid slx file will unzip into a directory with a couple of subdirectories, with most of the files being XML files. If the file will not unzip then it is not a valid slx file.
Kazem
Kazem on 21 Jul 2025
Edited: Kazem on 21 Jul 2025
For me, it was solved
My files was on git lfs
Go to the coloned folder and run this in Git
git lfs pull

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on 31 Oct 2022

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