diff --git a/src/spikeinterface/core/base.py b/src/spikeinterface/core/base.py
index 2f9cd90678..3cf4f38275 100644
--- a/src/spikeinterface/core/base.py
+++ b/src/spikeinterface/core/base.py
@@ -857,8 +857,8 @@ def save_to_folder(
         """
         Save the extractor and its data to a folder.
 
-        This method extracts trace data, saves it to a file (using a memory-mapped format
-        with BinaryRecordingExtractor), and stores both the original extractor's provenance
+        This method extracts trace data, saves it to a file (using the memory-mapped
+        BinaryRecordingExtractor format), and stores both the original extractor's provenance
         and the cached extractor's metadata in JSON format.
 
         The folder final location and name can be specified in a couple of ways ways: