diff --git a/sorter.rb b/sorter.rb
index 0f9ee69..5984462 100755
--- a/sorter.rb
+++ b/sorter.rb
@@ -152,8 +152,13 @@ def process_file (file_name, binfile, type)
     sections = text.lines("Date and time:", chomp: true) #sections is an arrary of each date section from the text
     sections.delete_at(0) #we can ignore the first chunk of text
     sections.each do |chunk|
-      timestamp = chunk.lines.delete_if {|line| line == "\r\n"}[0] #pulling out the timestamp
-      timestamp.tr!('/','-').tr!(':','').tr!(' ','_') #remove slashes and colons from timestamp, replaces spaces with unserscores
+      begin
+        timestamp = chunk.lines.delete_if {|line| line == "\r\n"}[0] #pulling out the timestamp
+        timestamp.tr!('/','-').tr!(':','').tr!(' ','_') #remove slashes and colons from timestamp, replaces spaces with unserscores
+      rescue
+        pp timestamp
+        abort
+      end
       timestamp.strip!
       output = Hash.new #Creating the output storage object
       outfile = file_name + '_' + timestamp