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Patches overwrite the old files and perhaps add some new ones as well. Your patch zipfile likely has a Story directory and some other files. If that's the case, just unzip them in the main sob directory and it'll place them in the Story directory as well, possibly asking you if you want to overwrite the old files.

plus I didn't download the patch in the normal way it is usually downloaded. I downloaded it in zip format

That's the way it has been done for years till DFArc got introduced