diff --git a/embeddings/Place Textual Inversion embeddings here.txt b/embeddings/Place Textual Inversion embeddings here.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
diff --git a/modules/sd_hijack.py b/modules/sd_hijack.py
index 5945b7c23fe..fa7eaeb89b6 100644
--- a/modules/sd_hijack.py
+++ b/modules/sd_hijack.py
@@ -232,7 +232,12 @@ def process_file(path, filename):
 
         for fn in os.listdir(dirname):
             try:
-                process_file(os.path.join(dirname, fn), fn)
+                fullfn = os.path.join(dirname, fn)
+
+                if os.stat(fullfn).st_size == 0:
+                    continue
+
+                process_file(fullfn, fn)
             except Exception:
                 print(f"Error loading emedding {fn}:", file=sys.stderr)
                 print(traceback.format_exc(), file=sys.stderr)