diff --git a/docs_rst/filepad_tasks.rst b/docs_rst/filepad_tasks.rst
index 849fa4ba1..0d09e5cad 100644
--- a/docs_rst/filepad_tasks.rst
+++ b/docs_rst/filepad_tasks.rst
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ Required parameters
 -------------------
 
 * paths ([str]): list of paths to files to be added
-* labels ([str]): list of labels, one for each file in the paths list.
 
 Optional parameters
 -------------------
 
+* identifiers ([str]): list of identifiers, one for each file in the paths list.
 * filepad_file (str): path to the filepad db config file
 * compress (bool): whether or not to compress the file before inserting to gridfs
 * metadata (dict): metadata to store along with the file, stored in 'metadata' key
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ them to the given destination directory.
 Required parameters
 -------------------
 
-* labels ([str]): list of labels, one for each file in the paths list.
+* identifiers ([str]): list of identifiers, one for each file in the paths list.
 
 Optional parameters
 -------------------
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The *DeleteFilesTask* lets you delete one or more files from the filepad.
 Required parameters
 -------------------
 
-* labels: ([str]) file labels to delete
+* identifiers: ([str]) file identifiers to delete
 
 Optional parameters
 -------------------
diff --git a/docs_rst/filepad_tutorial.rst b/docs_rst/filepad_tutorial.rst
index 6a23f8317..eb2c74bbb 100644
--- a/docs_rst/filepad_tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs_rst/filepad_tutorial.rst
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ Using FilePad for storing and retrieving files
 
 FilePad utility provides the api to add and delete arbitrary files of arbitray sizes to MongoDB(filepad).
 The is achieved by inserting the entire file contents to GridFS and storing the id returned by the
-GridFS insertion, the user provided label and the metadata in a document in the filepad. In the following
+GridFS insertion, the user provided identifier and the metadata in a document in the filepad. In the following
 documentation, ``file contents`` refers to the file contents stored in GridFS and ``document`` refers to the
-associated mongodb document that stores the ``file_id``, ``label`` and other miscellaneous information
+associated mongodb document that stores the ``file_id``, ``identifier`` and other miscellaneous information
 pertaining to the file.
 
 Adding files
@@ -15,30 +15,37 @@ Adding files
 
 Create a FilePad object::
 
-    fp = FilePad.auto_load()
+    fp = FilePad.from_db_file(<PATH_TO_DB_FILE>)
+
+or:
+
+    fp = FilePad.auto_load()  # if you have your configuration file paths set up for automatic loading
+
+The db file needs to contain ``username`` and ``password`` keys. You should be able to reuse your existing ``my_launchpad.yaml`` file for this purpose.
 
 To add a file::
 
-    file_id, label = fp.add(<path>, <label>, compress=True/False, metadata=<metadata>)
+    file_id, identifier = fp.add_file(<path>, <identifier>, compress=True/False, metadata=<metadata>)
 
-where ``<path>`` is a string path to the file to be inserted, ``<label>`` is some
-unique label that can be used to retrieve the file, the 'compress' argument value tells whether or not to compress
+where ``<path>`` is a string path to the file to be inserted, ``<identifier>`` is some
+unique identifier that can be used to retrieve the file, the 'compress' argument value tells whether or not to compress
 the file contents before insertion, ``<metadata>`` is a python dictionary input that will stored in the key 'metadata'.
 A bare minimum document in the filepad database consists of keys ``file_id``(used
-to store the string representation of the object id returned by GridFS), ``label``(used to store the
-user assigned label for the file), ``original_file_name`` , ``original_file_path`` and ``metadata``.
-On successful insertion the ``file_id`` and the ``label`` are returned.
+to store the string representation of the object id returned by GridFS), ``identifier``(used to store the
+user assigned identifier for the file), ``original_file_name`` , ``original_file_path`` and ``metadata``.
+On successful insertion the ``file_id`` and the ``identifier`` are returned.
 
 Retrieving files
 =================
 
+Retrieve file contents and the associated document by the identifier::
 
-Retrieve file contents and the associated document by the label::
-
-    file_contents, doc = fp.get_file(<label>)
+    file_contents, doc = fp.get_file(<identifier>)
 
-where the returned values ``file_contents`` and ``doc`` are the contents of the file with label ``<label>``
-and the document attached to it respectively.
+where the returned values ``file_contents`` and ``doc`` are the contents of the file with identifier ``<identifier>``
+and the document attached to it respectively. Note that if you had set the ``compress`` option to True when
+inserting the file, it will automatically be decompressed at this stage so that you will retrieve the
+original file contents as expected.
 
 Retrieve file contents and the associated document by the file id::
 
@@ -57,9 +64,9 @@ tuples that match the query.
 Deleting files
 =================
 
-To delete the contents of the file and the associated document by label::
+To delete the contents of the file and the associated document by identifier::
 
-    fp.delete_file(<label>)
+    fp.delete_file(<identifier>)
 
 To delete the file contents and the associated document by the file id::
 
diff --git a/fireworks/utilities/filepad.py b/fireworks/utilities/filepad.py
index e45ed7b4e..7cbb2b139 100644
--- a/fireworks/utilities/filepad.py
+++ b/fireworks/utilities/filepad.py
@@ -288,11 +288,11 @@ def from_db_file(cls, db_file, admin=True):
         creds = loadfn(db_file)
 
         if admin:
-            user = creds.get("admin_user")
-            password = creds.get("admin_password")
+            user = creds.get("admin_user", creds.get("username"))
+            password = creds.get("admin_password", creds.get("password"))
         else:
-            user = creds.get("readonly_user")
-            password = creds.get("readonly_password")
+            user = creds.get("readonly_user", creds.get("username"))
+            password = creds.get("readonly_password", creds.get("password"))
 
         coll_name = creds.get("filepad", "filepad")
         gfs_name = creds.get("filepad_gridfs", "filepad_gfs")