opening a zipfile on a Mac

If you selected multiple Pages documents, or a folder of Pages documents, and Zipped it, you can unzip that collection with a double-click in Finder. Otherwise…

Every Pages (and Word docx) documents are created as zip folders renamed as .pages, or .docx documents. That is normal.

When you attempt to double-click a Pages document in WIndows, Google Drive, or other non-Apple filesystems — it is seen as a Zip file and is attempted to be unzipped. Only open Pages documents with the Pages application.

Open a Finder window and press cmd+1 to put it into icon view. Locate the document that you are referring to as the Pages zip file, and screen capture the icon and the name of the file. Use the Image Insertion tool on the bottom tool bar of this editor to post the screen shot here.

Ordinarily, the act of initially saving a Pages document causes the application to create a folder, place the document contents in that folder, zips it, and then renames the .zip extension to .pages. All you see is the result, not the process of creating the Pages document. So no, you didn't zip anything, but Pages did.

Have you tried double-clicking the file in Finder to reveal the file with a .pages extension? Then you should be able to open that one as usual.

SG