diff --git a/src/app/Shared/Services/Api.service.tsx b/src/app/Shared/Services/Api.service.tsx
index 6d9580f54..8d6d63ae0 100644
--- a/src/app/Shared/Services/Api.service.tsx
+++ b/src/app/Shared/Services/Api.service.tsx
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 /* eslint-disable  @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any */
 import { LayoutTemplate, SerialLayoutTemplate } from '@app/Dashboard/types';
 import { RecordingLabel } from '@app/RecordingMetadata/types';
-import { createBlobURL, jvmIdToSubdirectoryName } from '@app/utils/utils';
+import { createBlobURL } from '@app/utils/utils';
 import { ValidatedOptions } from '@patternfly/react-core';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import { EMPTY, forkJoin, from, Observable, ObservableInput, of, ReplaySubject, shareReplay, throwError } from 'rxjs';
@@ -503,18 +503,20 @@ export class ApiService {
 
   // from file system path functions
   uploadArchivedRecordingToGrafanaFromPath(jvmId: string, recordingName: string): Observable<boolean> {
-    const subdirectoryName = jvmIdToSubdirectoryName(jvmId);
-    return this.sendRequest('beta', `fs/recordings/${subdirectoryName}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}/upload`, {
-      method: 'POST',
-    }).pipe(
+    return this.sendRequest(
+      'beta',
+      `fs/recordings/${encodeURIComponent(jvmId)}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}/upload`,
+      {
+        method: 'POST',
+      },
+    ).pipe(
       map((resp) => resp.ok),
       first(),
     );
   }
 
   deleteArchivedRecordingFromPath(jvmId: string, recordingName: string): Observable<boolean> {
-    const subdirectoryName = jvmIdToSubdirectoryName(jvmId);
-    return this.sendRequest('beta', `fs/recordings/${subdirectoryName}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}`, {
+    return this.sendRequest('beta', `fs/recordings/${encodeURIComponent(jvmId)}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}`, {
       method: 'DELETE',
     }).pipe(
       map((resp) => resp.ok),
@@ -531,10 +533,9 @@ export class ApiService {
   }
 
   postRecordingMetadataFromPath(jvmId: string, recordingName: string, labels: RecordingLabel[]): Observable<boolean> {
-    const subdirectoryName = jvmIdToSubdirectoryName(jvmId);
     return this.sendRequest(
       'beta',
-      `fs/recordings/${subdirectoryName}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}/metadata/labels`,
+      `fs/recordings/${encodeURIComponent(jvmId)}/${encodeURIComponent(recordingName)}/metadata/labels`,
       {
         method: 'POST',
         body: this.transformAndStringifyToRawLabels(labels),
diff --git a/src/app/utils/utils.ts b/src/app/utils/utils.ts
index ac91cdc97..a684c48fe 100644
--- a/src/app/utils/utils.ts
+++ b/src/app/utils/utils.ts
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { UPLOADS_SUBDIRECTORY } from '@app/Shared/Services/api.types';
 import { ISortBy, SortByDirection } from '@patternfly/react-table';
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import { NavigateFunction } from 'react-router-dom';
@@ -248,42 +247,5 @@ export const isAssetNew = (currVer: string) => {
   return !semverValid(oldVer) || semverGt(currVer, oldVer);
 };
 
-export const utf8ToBase32 = (str: string): string => {
-  const encoder = new TextEncoder();
-  const byteArray = encoder.encode(str);
-  const BASE32_ALPHABET = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567';
-  let bits = 0;
-  let value = 0;
-  let base32 = '';
-
-  for (let i = 0; i < byteArray.length; i++) {
-    value = (value << 8) | byteArray[i];
-    bits += 8;
-    while (bits >= 5) {
-      bits -= 5;
-      base32 += BASE32_ALPHABET[(value >>> bits) & 0x1f];
-    }
-  }
-
-  if (bits > 0) {
-    value <<= 5 - bits;
-    base32 += BASE32_ALPHABET[value & 0x1f];
-  }
-
-  const paddingLength = base32.length % 8 !== 0 ? 8 - (base32.length % 8) : 0;
-  for (let i = 0; i < paddingLength; i++) {
-    base32 += '=';
-  }
-
-  return base32;
-};
-
-export const jvmIdToSubdirectoryName = (jvmId: string): string => {
-  if (jvmId === UPLOADS_SUBDIRECTORY || jvmId === 'lost') {
-    return jvmId;
-  }
-  return utf8ToBase32(jvmId);
-};
-
 export const includesSubstr = (a: string, b: string): boolean =>
   !!a && !!b && a.toLowerCase().includes(b.trim().toLowerCase());