diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 557ba722..1fdc1b93 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2459,6 +2459,7 @@ Christoph Haubrich <christoph1.haubrich@arcor.de>
  for reporting a problem with the call to EpgHandlers.EndSegmentTransfer()
  for fixing handling zero bytes in cH264Parser
  for implementing parsing frame rate and image size for MPEG2, H.264 and H.265
+ for reporting a bug in generating the index file in the cutter
 
 Pekka Mauno <pekka.mauno@iki.fi>
  for fixing cSchedule::GetFollowingEvent() in case there is currently no present
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 4360b3ca..8b5e4f10 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9816,6 +9816,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added missing rounding when dividing frequencies in processing the NIT (thanks to
   Winfried Köhler).
 
-2022-11-30:
+2022-12-01:
 
 - Fixed a compiler warning.
+- Fixed generating the index file in the cutter (reported by Christoph Haubrich).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 43b0c269..2784109d 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 5.19 2022/11/28 14:39:23 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 5.20 2022/12/01 12:47:33 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -2579,7 +2579,7 @@ cIndexFile::cIndexFile(const char *FileName, bool Record, bool IsPesRecording, b
               cCondWait::SleepMs(INDEXFILETESTINTERVAL);
         }
      int delta = 0;
-     if (!Record && (access(fileName, R_OK) != 0 || FileSize(fileName) == 0)) {
+     if (!Record && (access(fileName, R_OK) != 0 || FileSize(fileName) == 0 && time(NULL) - LastModifiedTime(fileName) > MAXWAITFORINDEXFILE)) {
         // Index file doesn't exist, so try to regenerate it:
         if (!isPesRecording) { // sorry, can only do this for TS recordings
            resumeFile.Delete(); // just in case