FYI zipping a highly compressed file will only make it a tiny bit bigger than the original at most (like a few k per file). Edit: Just to add, compressed folders are useful for sending a large number of files to people (eg. if you have a folder to upload to google drive / wetransfer), and for archiving more compressible data, but there's no ... More @Wikipedia
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