Pages downloading document

Hello MrKwe,

Thanks for connecting with us here in Apple Support Communities. Are you using iCloud Drive? If so, this document may be able to explain why you're seeing "Downloading": Use iCloud Drive with Pages on Mac - Apple Support

Here are a few things to keep in mind about using iCloud to manage your documents across devices:

• If you edit and then close a document when you’re not connected to the internet, you see a cloud icon next to the document in the Open dialog on your Mac. The next time you connect to the internet, the edited document is synced to iCloud.
• If you edit a document on multiple computers or devices and don’t allow time for your edits to sync, you will see conflicts. If you do get a conflict, you can choose to preserve any or all of the versions. (This applies only to documents not shared with others.)
• If you delete a document that someone shared with you, it’s deleted from your iCloud Drive and from Pages on all your devices. You can click the shared link again to add the document back to your iCloud Drive, where it’s again available on all your computers and devices with iCloud turned on.
• If you use folders to organize your documents on one device, the same folder organization applies on all your devices.
• If you add a password to a document on one device, it’s required to open the document on all your devices.

Take care.

We appreciate the additional information MrKwe. When you check your iCloud settings, do you have iCloud Drive enabled? We ask as this could also add those files to iCloud when you're using specific applications.

Regards.

Understood MrKwe,

What we would recommend is to disable iCloud Drive as a test. Then, let us know if the issue persists and we'll go from there.

Cheers!