diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/identifiable_adapters.py b/src/caoscrawler/identifiable_adapters.py
index 7f54f39674ef69703615fe3a985aeadb9296d627..81396c66b9e3b08b2f375ffa26525ed1fa81baf0 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/identifiable_adapters.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/identifiable_adapters.py
@@ -149,6 +149,14 @@ identifiabel, identifiable and identified record) for a Record.
         return query_string
 
     def check_identifying_props(self, node, raise_exception=True):
+        """checks whether all identifying properties exist and raises an error if not
+
+        If raise_exception is False, the function returns False instead of raising an error.
+
+        Backreferences are not checked.
+
+        Returns True if all identifying properties exist.
+        """
         if node.registered_identifiable is None:
             if raise_exception:
                 raise RuntimeError("no registered_identifiable")
diff --git a/unittests/test_file_identifiables.py b/unittests/test_file_identifiables.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 93dc8cb5d274b0875b9414d191f0379761af8dd8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/unittests/test_file_identifiables.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/python
-# Tests for file identifiables
-# A. Schlemmer, 06/2021
-
-from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
-
-import caosdb as db
-import pytest
-from caoscrawler.identifiable import Identifiable
-from caoscrawler.identifiable_adapters import LocalStorageIdentifiableAdapter
-from caoscrawler.sync_graph import SyncNode
-from caosdb.cached import cache_clear
-from caosdb.exceptions import EmptyUniqueQueryError
-from pytest import raises
-
-from test_crawler import mock_get_entity_by
-
-
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def clear_cache():
-    cache_clear()
-
-
-@patch("caoscrawler.identifiable_adapters.get_children_of_rt",
-       new=Mock(side_effect=id))
-@patch("caoscrawler.identifiable_adapters.cached_get_entity_by",
-       new=Mock(side_effect=mock_get_entity_by))
-def test_file_identifiable():
-    ident = LocalStorageIdentifiableAdapter()
-
-    # Without a path there is no identifying information
-    with raises(ValueError):
-        ident.get_identifiable(SyncNode(db.File(), None), [])
-
-    fp = "/test/bla/bla.txt"
-    file_obj = db.File(path=fp)
-    identifiable = ident.get_identifiable(SyncNode(file_obj, None), [])
-
-    # the path is copied to the identifiable
-    assert fp == identifiable.path
-    assert isinstance(identifiable, Identifiable)
-
-    # __eq__ function is only defined for Identifiable objects
-    with raises(ValueError):
-        file_obj != identifiable
-
-    # since the path does not exist in the data in ident, the follwoing functions return None
-    with raises(EmptyUniqueQueryError):
-        ident.retrieve_identified_record_for_record(file_obj)
-    assert ident.get_file(identifiable) is None
-
-    # Try again with actual files in the store:
-    records = ident.get_records()
-    test_record_wrong_path = db.File(path="/bla/bla/test.txt")
-    test_record_correct_path = db.File(path="/test/bla/bla.txt")
-    test_record_alsocorrect_path = db.File(path="/test/bla/bla.txt")
-    records.append(test_record_wrong_path)
-    # Now, there is a file, but still wrong path -> result is still None
-    identified_file = ident.get_file(file_obj)
-    assert identified_file is None
-
-    records.append(test_record_correct_path)
-    # now there is a match
-    identified_file = ident.get_file(file_obj)
-    assert identified_file is not None
-    assert identified_file.path == file_obj.path
-
-    with raises(RuntimeError, match=".*unambigiously.*"):
-        records.append(test_record_alsocorrect_path)
-        identified_file = ident.get_file(file_obj)