Pages will not open a downloaded .pages document from iCloud because index.xml file not found?

New to using iCloud.  I created a large pages document on Mac Air and saved it to my iCloud account.  Found it at home on desktop Mac and downloaded it.  No problem.  However, it will not open due to the index.xml file not being found.  What should I do to open this document?  I've tried several things and no luck yet.  Thanks for any tips!  :-)

Options posted here: The required index.xml file is missing.
William Farrar posted:
Try this. It worked for me:
1. Single click on the document. This will "highlight" the document icon, but not invoke the error message.
2. Click on "File" in the menu.
3. Scroll down to "Open With".
4. One of my choices in the "Open With" selection is Pages (default) (5.0.1)
5. Click on that choice and the document should open.
In my "Open WIth" selection there is also a Pages (4.0.4), but that didn't work for me.
Now, here is a caveat. If before you open your document you instead first click on an open Internet window, then the "Open With" selection disappears from the File menu. In that case just single click again on the document icon again and the "Open With" selection returns.
fruhulda posted:
Try this:
  1. Make a duplicate of the file (cmd D), just to be safe
  2. Select .pages on the copy and change to .zip
  3. When the System asks if you really want to do this, click Use .zip
  4. Double click the new .zip file
  5. It will now appear as a folder with no extension
  6. Append .pages to the end of the folder name
  7. Again click on Use .pages
  8. Double click on this file to open it in Pages.
What you have done is extracted all the Pages resources from the .pages "package" and reconstructed it.
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