diff --git a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
index dd8edd3a7e62c892ab142bc489619c64bd6dc77f..70bdb495c5ff48489570ab45557601664cdd37f5 100644
--- a/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
+++ b/src/caoscrawler/crawl.py
@@ -1165,11 +1165,29 @@ def _treat_deprecated_prefix(prefix, remove_prefix):
     return remove_prefix
 
 
-def _fix_file_paths(crawled_data, add_prefix, remove_prefix):
-    """adjust the path according to add_/remove_prefix
+def _fix_file_paths(crawled_data: list[db.Entity],
+                    add_prefix: Optional[str],
+                    remove_prefix: Optional[str]):
+    """
+    Adjust the path according to add_/remove_prefix
 
     Also remove the `file` attribute from File entities (because inserts need currently be done
     by loadfiles.
+
+    Arguments:
+    ------------
+
+    crawled_data: list[db.Entity]
+            A list of entities. This list will be searched for instances of db.File.
+
+    add_prefix: Optional[str]
+            If add_prefix is not None, the given prefix will be added in front of elem.path.
+
+    remove_prefix: Optional[str]
+            If remove_prefix is not None the given prefix will be removed from the front of
+            elem.path. In this case a RuntimeError will be raised if any path of a file does
+            not begin with "remove_prefix".
+    
     """
     for elem in crawled_data:
         if isinstance(elem, db.File):
@@ -1267,9 +1285,11 @@ def crawler_main(crawled_directory_path: str,
             Traverse the data tree only along the given path. When the end of the given path
             is reached, traverse the full tree as normal.
     remove_prefix : Optional[str]
-        remove the given prefix from file paths
+        Remove the given prefix from file paths.
+        See docstring of '_fix_file_paths' for more details.
     add_prefix : Optional[str]
-        add the given prefix to file paths
+        Add the given prefix to file paths.
+        See docstring of '_fix_file_paths' for more details.
 
     Returns
     -------