diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 0d5084ae..62b7c3a9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -957,6 +957,8 @@ Jens Rosenboom <me@jayr.de>
 
 Andreas Regel <andreas.regel@gmx.de>
  for fixing handling bitmap indexes for 256 color mode
+ for reporting a bug in removing the "scanning recordings..." message in case the
+ video directory is empty
 
 Thomas Bergwinkl <Thomas.Bergwinkl@t-online.de>
  for fixing the validity check for channel IDs, because some providers use TIDs
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 13d4e10e..ddbc4be9 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2853,3 +2853,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   reporting this one).
 - Now using more separate areas in the "ST:TNG Panels" skin to allow a theme to
   use more independent clrMenu* colors.
+- Fixed removing the "scanning recordings..." message in case the video directory
+  is empty (thanks to Andreas Regel for reporting this one).
diff --git a/menu.c b/menu.c
index 889b82b1..49cdef4c 100644
--- a/menu.c
+++ b/menu.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: menu.c 1.306 2004/05/23 11:21:06 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: menu.c 1.307 2004/05/29 10:19:22 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "menu.h"
@@ -1421,9 +1421,10 @@ cMenuRecordings::cMenuRecordings(const char *Base, int Level, bool OpenSubMenus)
   Display(); // this keeps the higher level menus from showing up briefly when pressing 'Back' during replay
   if (!Base)
      Skins.Message(mtStatus, tr("scanning recordings..."));
-  if (Base || Recordings.Load()) {
-     if (!Base)
-        Skins.Message(mtStatus, NULL);
+  bool Loaded = Base || Recordings.Load();
+  if (!Base)
+     Skins.Message(mtStatus, NULL);
+  if (Loaded) {
      const char *LastReplayed = cReplayControl::LastReplayed();
      cMenuRecordingItem *LastItem = NULL;
      char *LastItemText = NULL;