diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 2b3641c8..80349ed2 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1781,3 +1781,7 @@ Pekka Mauno <pekka.mauno@iki.fi>
 
 Alexander Wenzel <hondansx@gmx.de>
  for fixing the shutdown timeout
+
+Jan Lenz <email@JanLenz.de>
+ for reporting a bug in deleting recordings that have been removed externally when
+ running out of disk space
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index c03e27c9..a7651cba 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4432,3 +4432,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed the shutdown timeout (thanks to Alexander Wenzel).
 - Only calling RemoveEmptyVideoDirectories() once in case a recording has been
   deleted (reported by Hardy Flor).
+- Fixed deleting recordings that have been removed externally when running out of
+  disk space (reported by Jan Lenz).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 6c1692b8..55ab9396 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 1.141 2006/03/19 14:08:58 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.142 2006/03/19 14:33:18 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -804,11 +804,16 @@ bool cRecording::Delete(void)
      strncpy(ext, DELEXT, strlen(ext));
      if (access(NewName, F_OK) == 0) {
         // the new name already exists, so let's remove that one first:
-        isyslog("removing recording %s", NewName);
+        isyslog("removing recording '%s'", NewName);
         RemoveVideoFile(NewName);
         }
-     isyslog("deleting recording %s", FileName());
-     result = RenameVideoFile(FileName(), NewName);
+     isyslog("deleting recording '%s'", FileName());
+     if (access(FileName(), F_OK) == 0)
+        result = RenameVideoFile(FileName(), NewName);
+     else {
+        isyslog("recording '%s' vanished", FileName());
+        result = true; // well, we were going to delete it, anyway
+        }
      }
   free(NewName);
   return result;