How to Install Minecraft Texture Packs Ver. 1.8?

I'm at the end of my wits. I have watched multiple videos and been on multiple forums and nothing seems to be working.

I can get into /AppData/Roaming/.minecraft, but I do not have a resourcepacks folder. Thus, when I try to open my resource packs from the game, it says it could not find the file, obviously, because it doesn't exist! So, I make a file named "resourcepacks", open it from within the game, drag my resource pack (yes, the whole.zip file) into the folder, and instead of being able

Added (1). to just click on it and select it, it opens the containing files, thus making me not able to select it!

I even tried renaming the.minecraft file to.minecraft-old and an error comes up saying that I must "enter a file name".
IF ANYONE HAS ANY INPUT, Please Help.

Try with a clean version of Minecraft