diff --git a/biomaj_download/download/ftp.py b/biomaj_download/download/ftp.py
index 78b5d24..92dd0d6 100644
--- a/biomaj_download/download/ftp.py
+++ b/biomaj_download/download/ftp.py
@@ -290,13 +290,17 @@ class FTPDownload(DownloadInterface):
             # the individual fields in this list of parts
             if not parts:
                 continue
-            rfile['permissions'] = parts[0]
-            rfile['group'] = parts[2]
-            rfile['user'] = parts[3]
-            rfile['size'] = int(parts[4])
-            rfile['month'] = Utils.month_to_num(parts[5])
-            rfile['day'] = int(parts[6])
-            rfile['hash'] = hashlib.md5(line.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+            try:
+                rfile['permissions'] = parts[0]
+                rfile['group'] = parts[2]
+                rfile['user'] = parts[3]
+                rfile['size'] = int(parts[4])
+                rfile['month'] = Utils.month_to_num(parts[5])
+                rfile['day'] = int(parts[6])
+                rfile['hash'] = hashlib.md5(line.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+            except Exception:
+                self.logger.error('Download:Skip: failed to read file info: ' + str(line))
+                continue
             try:
                 rfile['year'] = int(parts[7])
             except Exception:
@@ -310,6 +314,7 @@ class FTPDownload(DownloadInterface):
                 if rfile['month'] == curdate.month and rfile['day'] > curdate.day:
                     rfile['year'] = curdate.year - 1
             rfile['name'] = parts[8]
+
             for i in range(9, len(parts)):
                 if parts[i] == '->':
                     # Symlink, add to files AND dirs as we don't know the type of the link
@@ -318,6 +323,10 @@ class FTPDownload(DownloadInterface):
                 else:
                     rfile['name'] += ' ' + parts[i]

+            if rfile['name'] == '':
+                self.logger.error('Download:Skip: failed to read file name: ' + str(line))
+                continue
+
             is_dir = False
             if re.match('^d', rfile['permissions']):
                 is_dir = True