Hi Jack! I'm still a little confused about what you are wanting to do. I'm thinking you probably read some where that zipping files would take up less space on your drive. That's probably true. I never even thought of some thing like that. I don't know of any way to know what's in a zip unless you open it. What are you wanting to do?? If you open the zip, then you can copy and paste each file to a new folder. You can name that folder and then you will know what's in that folder. There are endless ways to organize and name your folders.
Create a folder named country music. Open a zip file. Copy and paste all the country songs. Create another folder and name it jazz. Copy and paste all your jazz to that folder. Do this till you have every thing organized and in a folder that you recognize.
I hope I have answered your question. I'm just not real sure what your trying to accomplish. Maybe some one here can help us. The only way I know to know what's in a folder is give it a name and put files in that folder that are related to that folder.
Are you able to open these zips?? I have music folders and I have picture folders. It's like a giant file cabinet. You have folders with names and you have files in each folder with names??
PS I could use some help with this from a guru here on Computer Hope.