# Logic and usecase for remote subfolders **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer\ **Created:** [March 6, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/logic-and-usecase-for-remote-subfolders/6511 "2019-03-06T23:19:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 29
**Author:** ![kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/user_avatar/forum.duplicati.com/kees-z/32/29_2.png) [@kees-z](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/kees-z)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/logic-and-usecase-for-remote-subfolders/6511/29 "2019-08-12T18:11:20Z")
> [@BlueBlock](#): > > Regarding file sorting and 0001, why even the need to have them sorted? Not a special reason, it could be handy when accessing the remote files using a file browser instead of the Duplicati software. For example, if you want to download the files to/from local storage for migration to another backend, of for disaster recovery tasks. Apart from that, it just gives a cleaner look. > [@BlueBlock](#): > > The filenames are pretty long, which is helpful to keep them unique in a single folder. But at 2000 files per directory the filenames can likely be shortened and thereby reduce the database size. The filenames contain 32 random characters, because it’s a [standard GUID](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/why-is-the-13th-charcater-always-a-4/6843). But all characters (except the 13th) are random, so the filenames could be truncated to save some space in the local DB. I don’t have a clue how how much the db size would decrease because of shoreter filenames. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/logic-and-usecase-for-remote-subfolders/6511)._