Pages file has disappeared

I have a deadline in 3 days and my work, 'Journal', a pages document has been replaced with a folder 'Journal.pages' with the following file structure:
Data (folder)
Index.zip
Metadata (folder)
preview-micro.jpg
preview-web.jpg
preview.jpg
Is there any way to get my document back? This was the only copy, which I know was very stupid of me, but if anyone could help that would be great.
I didn't delete the file, nor empty my trash but the file is nowhere to be seen. It is not even in 'recent files' when I open pages.

Pages files are "packages", which basically means they are a collection of files and folders pretending to be one file to the user. There is a flag in the file system that maintains this, sometimes known as the bundle flag. It looks like this flag has been cleared.
If you have Xcode installed, you can set the flag with the command line tool setFile. If you don't have that, there are some third-party utilities that can do this.
Another thing you might try is changing the file extension of "Journal.pages" to "Journal.pages.bundle". And then back to pages.
jamesmitchell23 wrote:
I struggle with hard drive space even without Time Machine. Do you know if there would be any way to recover the document from this folder? That is, if the content is even still in there.
Files with no backup are waiting to be lost. Buy an external drive, at least 3 times the size of your data, and plug it in. Otherwise, you will be back here with worse problems.

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