My workplace shares a SMB fileserver for storing documents and files that we receive from clients. The contents of these directories are usually a mixture of Documents (PDF, .docx) and images. Clients send us whole nested directories (from a wide range of environments), and this leads to some very messy paths.
A proposed solution to this is to store all files/directories that we receive from clients within their zipped folder. I feel like this puts an unnecessary burden on our users, as they cannot search through zipped directories, and need to copy and unzip all directories locally to access any necessary data. But, it does remove the need to manage those messy paths.
Am I missing something? Is there a tangible benefit (besides a "cleaner" directory structure) to zipping everything up and making all the work happen on local users machines?
