diff --git a/src/common/contextmenu/actions.ts b/src/common/contextmenu/actions.ts
index c16c2c1..3a85d4d 100644
--- a/src/common/contextmenu/actions.ts
+++ b/src/common/contextmenu/actions.ts
@@ -10,8 +10,12 @@ import TaskManager from "../task/TaskManager";
 import { getApp } from "../ui/App";
 
 export async function downloadFolderEntry(entry: FolderEntry) {
-    const blob = await getApp().state.session.download(Priority.QUICK, entry);
-    download(blob, entry.name);
+    try {
+        const blob = await getApp().state.session.download(Priority.QUICK, entry);
+        download(blob, entry.name);
+    } catch(e) {
+        Dialog.message("Failed to download", String(e));
+    }
 }
 
 export function rename(entry: FolderEntry) {
diff --git a/src/common/ui/editor/editor.tsx b/src/common/ui/editor/editor.tsx
index 68bd87e..55f00af 100644
--- a/src/common/ui/editor/editor.tsx
+++ b/src/common/ui/editor/editor.tsx
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ export async function openNbtEditor(folderEntry: FolderEntry) {
     } catch(e) {
         Dialog.message(
             "Error reading NBT",
-            "There was an error reading the NBT file. Are you sure it is an NBT file? " + e
+            "There was an error reading the NBT file. " + String(e)
         );
         return;
     }
@@ -299,7 +299,13 @@ async function getFile(folderEntry: FolderEntry): Promise<EditorFileInfo | null>
     const isgzipped = folderEntry.name.endsWith(".gz");
     if (isgzipped && !await confirmOpenGzip(folderEntry)) return null;
 
-    let blob = await getApp().state.session.download(Priority.QUICK, folderEntry);
+    let blob;
+    try {
+        blob = await getApp().state.session.download(Priority.QUICK, folderEntry)
+    } catch(e) {
+        Dialog.message("Failed to open file", String(e));
+        return null;
+    }
     if (isgzipped) {
         blob = await ungzip(blob);
         return {
diff --git a/src/web/WebsocketFTPConnection.ts b/src/web/WebsocketFTPConnection.ts
index 9e15c93..66af2c8 100644
--- a/src/web/WebsocketFTPConnection.ts
+++ b/src/web/WebsocketFTPConnection.ts
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ export default class WebsocketFTPConnection implements FTPConnection {
                 xhr.open("GET", url);
                 xhr.send();
             });
-        } else if (response.data) {
+        } else if (response.data || response.data === '') {
             const base64 = response.data;
             const binarystring = atob(base64);
             const arraybuffer = new Uint8Array(binarystring.length);