diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 759db3cd..c12dca67 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -3356,6 +3356,8 @@ Matthias Senzel <matthias.senzel@t-online.de>
  for reporting a high CPU load during replay with active progress display
  for reporting that the lock on the Channels list in cDisplayChannel was still held
  when Flush() was called
+ for reporting that if an error occurs while recording, the respective entry in the list
+ of recordings was not updated immediately
 
 Marek Nazarko <mnazarko@gmail.com>
  for translating OSD texts to the Polish language
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6eff1005..6a1884ca 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9720,7 +9720,9 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Removed unused declaration of cDvbTuner::SetFrontendType() (thanks to Helmut Binder).
 - Fixed handling incomplete multi-packet CAT (thanks to Helmut Binder).
 
-2021-06-11:
+2021-06-19:
 
 - Fixed restarting PMT pids after starting a recording on the currently viewed channel
   (with help from Helmut Binder).
+- If an error occurs while recording, the respective entry in the list of recordings is
+  now updated immediately (reported by Matthias Senzel).
diff --git a/recorder.c b/recorder.c
index 0c07255d..30832017 100644
--- a/recorder.c
+++ b/recorder.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recorder.c 5.3 2021/05/25 20:14:06 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recorder.c 5.4 2021/06/19 14:21:16 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recorder.h"
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@ void cRecorder::HandleErrors(bool Force)
         esyslog("%s: %d error%s", recordingName, d, d > 1 ? "s" : "");
         recordingInfo->SetErrors(oldErrors + errors);
         recordingInfo->Write();
+        LOCK_RECORDINGS_WRITE;
+        Recordings->UpdateByName(recordingName);
         }
      lastErrors = errors;
      lastErrorLog = time(NULL);