Best organizing practice for Apple Loops

Did a search for this, but to no avail.
I recently bought some big fish apple loops. They import beautifully using drag and drop, except for one thing:
On the big fish DVD, each folder of the loop is called something non-descript, like 'Eflat40bpmfull'. So in the loops browser, it's not really possible to search for some of these things, unless you have the original DVD open and know what you're looking for.
So how best to import these - or am I just not using the loops browser in the right way? One idea I had was to change the names of the loops before importing them, so they would be easier to locate, but I'm unsure if that destroys any of the looping tags on them.
Thoughts?

Hi Peter,
I don't think renaming them will destroy the metadata (tags).
If its a hassle renaming every one, maybe a workaround to aid searching, assuming they've come in various sub-folders depending on their content would be to drag & drop them onto the loop browser whilst inside their various folders, giving the folders descriptive names e.g. 'bigfish guitars' & 'bigfish drumfills' - then although the samples would still have their slighty useless names at least you could choose a folder from the jampack organiser drop down menu in the loop browser & flick through a lesser number of slightly uselessly named loops that are at least in the right ballpark for the type of thing you're looking for?
I do find it annoying when sample banks aren't practically named - although samplemagic do seem to have got it right on this count from what I've seen
Cheers
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