---
id: moving-folders.how-do-i-change-data-parking-settings
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/how-do-i-change-data-parking-settings
category: "Moving folders"
subcategory: "Data Parking (the two-pane mover)"
question: "What settings does the gear in Data Parking control?"
alt_questions:
  - "Data Parking settings"
  - "How many files transfer at once?"
  - "Change parallel transfers"
  - "verification level setting storage studio"
  - "Where is the recent-write guard setting?"
short_answer: "The gear opens Data Parking settings: Parallel transfers (1–16, default 5), Verification level (Fast, Thorough or Off), and the recent-write guard with its window (default 12 hours) that holds folders still being written to."
tags: ["settings", "data parking", "parallel transfers"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/what-verification-levels-does-data-parking-offer", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-was-my-move-blocked-for-recent-writes"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# What settings does the gear in Data Parking control?

The gear in the middle column opens **Data Parking settings**, with three controls:

- **Parallel transfers** — how many transfers run at once (1 to 16, default 5). Lower it for spinning disks or a low-power Mac; changes apply to the next transfer, not ones already running.
- **Verification level** — how thoroughly each move is checked: **Fast** (the default), **Thorough**, or **Off**.
- **Bypass recent-write guard** and **Recent-write window** — whether Storage Studio holds folders that were written to recently, and how recent counts (1 hour up to 72 hours, default 12).

See [What is the verification level?](https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/what-verification-levels-does-data-parking-offer) and [the recent-write guard](https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-was-my-move-blocked-for-recent-writes).