# File Hashing

Menu path: Settings > Settings > File Hashing
Data Crow creates hashes for files to be able to uniquely identify them. The Drive Manager is one of the tools which uses the file hash to find moved files.

## File hash type

Select the hashing algorithm. This is really a matter of taste. Any hash will do.

## Create hashes for files smaller than

For performance reasons Data Crow only creates hashes for files smaller than a certain size. Here you can tweak this setting. Setting this value to 0, or leaving this value blank will enable parsing files of any size.