Windows 10: Zip folder path too long

I tried copying over a file that was sent to me through a zip folder but it won't copy because it says the path is too long. I searched this site to find an answer, but I don't understand it. The response to someone's questions was by telling them to shorten the name of the folder. I know how to shorten names, but when I right click on the folder, it does not give me an option to "rename." I can only open it, copy it, delete it. If I click on copy, it still won't copy over because the path is too long. I copied the zip folder itself, but the problem file still would not copy over when the other documents inside of it would. Please tell me in layman's terms how to shorten the path name of their zip file?

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Explorer support for zip files with long file paths

Windows 10 Explorer natively support accessing files within a zip without exploding/extracting it.

That is a great feature since it prevents us to have to needlessly waste time and space to extract zip files just to look at some files within the zip file.

However, while accessing the zip file directly from Explorer, we have found that if people create a long folder structure with long folder names and long file names before zipping the folder structure, then trying to access some of those long folder/file
name files in the zip file starts to fail, complaining about the path being too long.

Is there a known fix for that ? (One that does not involve extracting the entire zip file, just to look at one file)

(FYI: we have enabled the computer for long file paths in the registry, and accessing the exact same folder structure outside of the zip file at the root of the drive works fine)

Similarly, trying to extract the zip file in some folder within the drive folder hierarchy also fails, giving some error while extracting the zip file.

Can someone explain why trying to extract the zip file in some folder within the drive folder hierarchy also fails, given we have enabled the computer for long file paths in the registry ?

The only option we have found so far is to extract the zip file in the root of the drive, which then allow us to access all the files. even the ones with very long folder file names.

Thanks for any fix or insight you can provide.

 

Explorer support for zip files with long file paths

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Folders with zip files

I have like 30 or more folders and everyone of them has only one single zip file.
How can I extract all zip files inside of all folders?