diff --git a/com.minres.scviewer.database.sqlite/src/com/minres/scviewer/database/sqlite/SQLiteDbLoader.java b/com.minres.scviewer.database.sqlite/src/com/minres/scviewer/database/sqlite/SQLiteDbLoader.java
index a6e05ed..d677b73 100644
--- a/com.minres.scviewer.database.sqlite/src/com/minres/scviewer/database/sqlite/SQLiteDbLoader.java
+++ b/com.minres.scviewer.database.sqlite/src/com/minres/scviewer/database/sqlite/SQLiteDbLoader.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 import java.sql.SQLException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -91,6 +92,8 @@ public class SQLiteDbLoader implements IWaveformDbLoader {
 					if (buffer[i] != x[i])	return false;
 		} catch(FileNotFoundException e) {
 			return false;
+		} catch(IOException e) { //if an I/O error occurs
+			return false;
 		}
 		database=new SQLiteDatabase(file.getAbsolutePath());
 		database.setData("TIMERESOLUTION", 1L);