Title: Filing System
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Filing System

 *  [andre.thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrethomas/)
 * (@andrethomas)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filing-system/)
 * Hi All!
 * I have been wondering how WordPress’ filing system works. While I was looking
   around my server, I found all the folders that the images (and maybe even .PDFs)
   were saved to. There were hundreds of folders all corresponding to each site 
   that was created in my multi-site network. In each file, there were folders named
   from 1 through 12 symbolizing the months that the images therein were uploaded.
 * All this to say, I came into managing this network after about 700 sites were
   created. Is there an easier way to know which site corresponds to the array of
   folders I have on my server?

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 *  [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filing-system/#post-7465481)
 * wp-content/uploads is where you found in the folders in question and is simply
   used as a place to store any images. However, each site has a media library, 
   controlled via the database, which links that specific site to the images it 
   uses. So, yes, images uploaded in January, on any of your sites, will all be 
   stores in the 01 folder. However, only the relevant sites will then show the 
   image in their library.
 * As for a “better way”, I don’t know what you’re actually looking for.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filing-system/#post-7465481)
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