diff --git a/desktop/src/main/ipc.ts b/desktop/src/main/ipc.ts
index 093724251..bde28d940 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main/ipc.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/main/ipc.ts
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ import {
     saveEncryptionKey,
 } from "./services/store";
 import {
+    clearPendingUploads,
     getElectronFilesFromGoogleZip,
     lsZip,
     pendingUploads,
@@ -199,6 +200,8 @@ export const attachIPCHandlers = () => {
 
     // - Upload
 
+    ipcMain.handle("lsZip", (_, zipPath: string) => lsZip(zipPath));
+
     ipcMain.handle("pendingUploads", () => pendingUploads());
 
     ipcMain.handle("setPendingUploadCollection", (_, collectionName: string) =>
@@ -211,7 +214,7 @@ export const attachIPCHandlers = () => {
             setPendingUploadFiles(type, filePaths),
     );
 
-    ipcMain.handle("lsZip", (_, zipPath: string) => lsZip(zipPath));
+    ipcMain.handle("clearPendingUploads", () => clearPendingUploads());
 
     // -
 
diff --git a/desktop/src/main/services/upload.ts b/desktop/src/main/services/upload.ts
index 245edafe6..1ca7c2bc4 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main/services/upload.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/main/services/upload.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ import {
 } from "../stores/upload-status";
 import { getElectronFile, getZipFileStream } from "./fs";
 
+export const lsZip = async (zipPath: string) => {
+    const zip = new StreamZip.async({ file: zipPath });
+
+    const entries = await zip.entries();
+    const entryPaths: string[] = [];
+
+    for (const entry of Object.values(entries)) {
+        const basename = path.basename(entry.name);
+        // Ignore "hidden" files (files whose names begins with a dot).
+        if (entry.isFile && basename.length > 0 && basename[0] != ".") {
+            // `entry.name` is the path within the zip.
+            entryPaths.push(entry.name);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return [entryPaths];
+};
+
 export const pendingUploads = async () => {
     const collectionName = uploadStatusStore.get("collectionName");
     const filePaths = validSavedPaths("files");
@@ -60,6 +78,10 @@ export const setPendingUploadFiles = (
     else uploadStatusStore.delete(key);
 };
 
+export const clearPendingUploads = () => {
+    uploadStatusStore.clear();
+};
+
 const storeKey = (type: PendingUploads["type"]): keyof UploadStatusStore => {
     switch (type) {
         case "zips":
@@ -69,10 +91,6 @@ const storeKey = (type: PendingUploads["type"]): keyof UploadStatusStore => {
     }
 };
 
-export const lsZip = async (zipPath: string) => {
-    return [zipPath];
-};
-
 export const getElectronFilesFromGoogleZip = async (filePath: string) => {
     const zip = new StreamZip.async({
         file: filePath,
diff --git a/desktop/src/main/stores/upload-status.ts b/desktop/src/main/stores/upload-status.ts
index e2d1880ce..5b7f7c112 100644
--- a/desktop/src/main/stores/upload-status.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/main/stores/upload-status.ts
@@ -1,24 +1,9 @@
 import Store, { Schema } from "electron-store";
 
 export interface UploadStatusStore {
-    /**
-     * The name of the collection (when uploading to a singular collection) or
-     * the root collection (when uploading to separate * albums) to which we
-     * these uploads are meant to go to.
-     */
     collectionName: string;
-    /**
-     * Paths of regular files that need to be uploaded.
-     */
     filePaths: string[];
-    /**
-     * Paths of zip files that need to be uploaded.
-     */
     zipPaths: string[];
-    /**
-     * For each zip file, which of its entries (paths) within the zip file that
-     * need to be uploaded.
-     */
     zipEntries: Record<string, string[]>;
 }
 
diff --git a/desktop/src/preload.ts b/desktop/src/preload.ts
index 244cc9ffc..ad93a40f6 100644
--- a/desktop/src/preload.ts
+++ b/desktop/src/preload.ts
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ const watchFindFiles = (folderPath: string): Promise<string[]> =>
 
 // - Upload
 
+const lsZip = (zipPath: string): Promise<string[]> =>
+    ipcRenderer.invoke("lsZip", zipPath);
+
 const pendingUploads = (): Promise<PendingUploads | undefined> =>
     ipcRenderer.invoke("pendingUploads");
 
@@ -253,8 +256,8 @@ const setPendingUploadFiles = (
 ): Promise<void> =>
     ipcRenderer.invoke("setPendingUploadFiles", type, filePaths);
 
-const lsZip = (zipPath: string): Promise<string[]> =>
-    ipcRenderer.invoke("lsZip", zipPath);
+const clearPendingUploads = (): Promise<void> =>
+    ipcRenderer.invoke("clearPendingUploads");
 
 // - TODO: AUDIT below this
 // -
@@ -373,10 +376,11 @@ contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld("electron", {
 
     // - Upload
 
+    lsZip,
     pendingUploads,
     setPendingUploadCollection,
     setPendingUploadFiles,
-    lsZip,
+    clearPendingUploads,
 
     // -
 
diff --git a/web/packages/next/types/ipc.ts b/web/packages/next/types/ipc.ts
index f00409b00..105661036 100644
--- a/web/packages/next/types/ipc.ts
+++ b/web/packages/next/types/ipc.ts
@@ -601,14 +601,33 @@ export interface FolderWatchSyncedFile {
 }
 
 /**
- * When the user starts an upload, we remember the files they'd selected or drag
- * and dropped so that we can resume (if needed) when the app restarts after
- * being stopped in the middle of the uploads.
+ * State about pending and in-progress uploads.
+ *
+ * When the user starts an upload, we remember the files they'd selected (or
+ * drag-dropped) so that we can resume if they restart the app in before the
+ * uploads have been completed. This state is kept on the Electron side, and
+ * this object is the IPC intermediary.
  */
 export interface PendingUploads {
-    /** The collection to which we're uploading */
+    /**
+     * The collection to which we're uploading, or the root collection.
+     *
+     * This is name of the collection (when uploading to a singular collection)
+     * or the root collection (when uploading to separate * albums) to which we
+     * these uploads are meant to go to. See {@link CollectionMapping}.
+     */
     collectionName: string;
-    /* The upload can be either of a Google Takeout zip, or regular files */
-    type: "files" | "zips";
-    files: ElectronFile[];
+    /**
+     * Paths of regular files that need to be uploaded.
+     */
+    filePaths: string[];
+    /**
+     * Paths of zip files that need to be uploaded.
+     */
+    zipPaths: string[];
+    /**
+     * For each zip file, which of its entries (paths) within the zip file that
+     * need to be uploaded.
+     */
+    zipEntries: Record<string, string[]>;
 }