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Jay, I think that the iron may be too hard for a file. Do you have an angle grinder? Lots of videos on YouTube show people running an angle grinder in a vice in lieu of a grinding wheel.
If you do, keep a large washing up bowl of cold water next to it, and dip the blade in every 2 seconds (no exaggeration) to keep the steel cool. There is always a danger of overheating the edge and removing the hardness.
I recently shortened a Stanley plane iron by 3/8″, by taking chunks out of it on the corner of a grinding wheel to make saw teeth, then grinding off the saw teeth. This made the work go so much faster than keeping the cut the full width of the wheel. I have a slow water-cooled wheel though, to finish off by re-grinding the bevel.