New ~/Library/Keychains subfolder?

I've been using OS X  10.7 Lion until today, and I've just bought an SSD for my Macbook (to upgrade from a harddrive) and installed OS X 10.9 Mavericks on it.
So far Mavericks seems great, and there are some sweet little improvements. I've put my old hard-drive in an external USB enclosure, and I'm copying my preferences files over.
During the course of this, it seems like the organistion structure of ~/Library/Keychains has changed.
On my old 10.7 system I had the files Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates, login.keychain, metadata.keychain
On my new 10.9 system I have only the file login.keychain and then a separate subfolder called 833385D1-2681-5706-B6E9-8C1BDCA4928E
In the subfolder are: accountStatus.plist, keychain-2.db, keychain-2.db-shm. keychain-2.db-wal, user.kb
I assume that I can copy over my old login.keychain and all my passwords will transfer, but what is the subfolder with the funny name for?
I can't think of anything I've used (in the last couple of hours of setting up preferences on this new computer) which could have created it. I'm almost tempted to delete the **** thing, and see what breaks. 

Hi Strolls,
Don't trash anything in Mavericks Key Chain.
The separate subfolder called 833385D1-2681-5706-B6E9-8C1BDCA4928E
Is a unique number that belongs to your computer ... this is new in Mavericks.
More than this I can't tell you.
Wait until some one response to you with more experiance's in using Key Chain in Mavericks.
Dimaxum

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