diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3663667106caa05ea629b34e096f71ae36125d00..205fcb077cb0ca8f8facc6c1f636539f9bbb2384 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased] ##
 
 ### Added ###
+- Added location argument to  `src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py`
 
 ### Changed ###
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Removed ###
 
 ### Fixed ###
+- Fixed `src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py`
 
 ### Security ###
 
diff --git a/src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py b/src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py
index 6dd35f8a6f699a2c74ff41a9924cd65c436efd42..a142c1dd7ffd1a4e6ee6cfc85891e1bf70f98d89 100755
--- a/src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py
+++ b/src/caosdb/utils/checkFileSystemConsistency.py
@@ -82,17 +82,15 @@ def main(argv=None):
     program_build_date = str(__updated__)
     program_version_message = '%%(prog)s %s (%s)' % (
         program_version, program_build_date)
-    program_shortdesc = __import__('__main__').__doc__.split("\n")[1]
-    program_license = '''%s
+    program_license = '''
 
-  Created by timm fitschen on %s.
   Copyright 2016 BMPG. All rights reserved.
 
   Distributed on an "AS IS" basis without warranties
   or conditions of any kind, either express or implied.
 
 USAGE
-''' % (program_shortdesc, str(__date__))
+'''
 
     # Setup argument parser
     parser = ArgumentParser(description=program_license,
@@ -113,6 +111,7 @@ USAGE
         help="timeout in seconds for the database requests. [default: %(default)s]",
         metavar="TIMEOUT",
         default="200")
+    parser.add_argument('location')
 
     # Process arguments
     args = parser.parse_args()
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@ USAGE
     VERBOSITY = args.verbose
     TIMEOUT = args.timeout
 
-    runCheck(TIMEOUT)
+    print(runCheck(TIMEOUT, args.location).messages)
 
     return 0