diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5acf68d04..2b032df41 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 2004-08-24  Don Allingham  <dallingham@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* src/ReadXML.py: Fix file copy problem, handle copy failure
-	* src/src/ImageSelect.py: Display GRAMPS ID, not DB handle
+	* src/ImageSelect.py: Display GRAMPS ID, not DB handle
+	* src/WriteGedcom.py: handle image file problems when exporting
 
 2004-08-24  Martin Hawlisch <loshawlos@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* src/plugins/WebPage.py: web page enhancements, including
diff --git a/src/WriteGedcom.py b/src/WriteGedcom.py
index f6881b6a3..045a75a03 100644
--- a/src/WriteGedcom.py
+++ b/src/WriteGedcom.py
@@ -1029,17 +1029,21 @@ class GedcomWriter:
                 photo_obj_id = photo.get_reference_handle()
                 photo_obj = self.db.get_object_from_handle(photo_obj_id)
                 if photo_obj and photo_obj.get_mime_type() == "image/jpeg":
+                    path = photo_obj.get_path ()
+                    print path
+                    if not os.path.isfile(path):
+                        continue
                     self.writeln('1 OBJE')
                     self.writeln('2 FORM jpeg')
-                    path = photo_obj.get_path ()
                     dirname = os.path.join (self.dirname, self.images_path)
                     basename = os.path.basename (path)
                     self.writeln('2 FILE %s' % os.path.join(self.images_path,
                                                            basename))
                     try:
-                        os.mkdir (dirname)
+                        if not os.path.isdir(dirname):
+                            os.mkdir (dirname)
                     except:
-                        pass
+                        continue
                     dest = os.path.join (dirname, basename)
                     try:
                         os.link (path, dest)