diff --git a/pyiron_base/database/filetable.py b/pyiron_base/database/filetable.py
index 9cb2a1d42..26fbbf287 100644
--- a/pyiron_base/database/filetable.py
+++ b/pyiron_base/database/filetable.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def init_table(self, fileindex, working_dir_lst=None):
         for path, mtime in zip(fileindex.path, fileindex.mtime):
             try:  # Ignore HDF5 files which are not created by pyiron
                 job_dict = self.get_extract(path, mtime)
-            except ValueError:
+            except (ValueError, OSError):
                 pass
             else:
                 job_dict["id"] = len(working_dir_lst) + 1