MY PAGES FILE BECAME A FOLDER! HOW DO I FIX IT?

Here's what I did that actually worked:

1. Make a copy of this weird .pages folder.

2. Move the copy out of Dropbox and onto your Desktop.

3. Open the folder.

4. Select ALL contents of the folder.

5. Right-click and select compress. This creates a Archive.zip file in the folder.

6. Move this Archive.zip file onto your Desktop.

7. Double-click the Archive.zip file to create a new folder called Archive.

8. Click the folder, then press Return: this highlights the name of the folder. At the END of the name, add .pages

9. A dialog box will pop up, select Add.

10. This will then revert the file back to a readable and editable Pages document!

The only Pages documents that remain compatible with non-Apple filesystems are the Pages single file format (zip/compressed and renamed to .pages) documents. You can tell it is a single file format document because when you right-click on the document name, it will not have a menu item “Show Package Contents.” Pages documents that are package folders are really special directories that the OS X Finder, and the Apple HFS+ filesystem make appear as though they are regular files to Pages.

Put them on cloud services other than iCloud, or on filesystems other than your boot drive's Apple HFS+, and they are simply directories. Pages cannot open, or write to these directories on non-Apple filesystems. You would need to right-click on these package folders, and choose compress from the pop up menu — before attaching to Mail, or tossing in Dropbox, etc. You would have to bring them back to OS X before you double-click to uncompress them, and open in Pages.

I found a workaround to fix it. It's a shame they put the users in this situations, Apple faking a file that is a folder and Dropbox not fixing it for months.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5500576?answerId=24361747022#24361747022

If you compres (select file and right click) your file.pages it "should" be saved as file.zip

Now remove / rename your original one

And rename the file.zip to file.pages

And then do not use it again with Dropbox.

That will probably happen every time you open a document on Dropbox with Pages 5.

In Pages '08 and older, files were "packages", essentially folders. People complained that this was stupid, and Apple decided to change it in Pages '09. However, in the recently released Pages 5, Apple decided to go back to the old package concept along with some other changes to the file structure to make sure no other application can open the files.

If you keep the files on your Mac hard disk, the package structure is not has visible as when you use external media.

I also had a very important document stored in Dropbox for more security so I have more than one copy in a few places and now I can't open it! What to do, I need my information stored in it!

I'm really angry about this!

Marcus in Pages 09 you could choose in the preferences if you wanted a package file or flat file.

Unfortunetely this solution does not work. Pages is able to read the file.

zmatallo - your answer seems contradictory. Pages does read pages files but not folders

Sorry. I meant that Pages is NOT able to read the renamed file.

Does anybody could restore the .zip file yet??

Cheers

I tried all of the solutions I found online, and in the end I tried just renaming the file into XXX.pages. And it worked!!

You save my day - thank you!

This WORKS.