diff -Nur gimageview-0.2.2-bak/src/gimv_image.c gimageview-0.2.2/src/gimv_image.c
--- gimageview-0.2.2-bak/src/gimv_image.c	Tue Jun  4 23:12:44 2002
+++ gimageview-0.2.2/src/gimv_image.c	Tue Jun  4 23:29:50 2002
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@
    guchar *rgb_data;
    gint width, height;
 
+   if (!file_exists (filename)) 
+      return NULL;
+
    rgb_data = bmp_load (filename, &width, &height);
    if (rgb_data) {
       image = gimv_image_create_from_data (rgb_data, width, height, FALSE);
diff -Nur gimageview-0.2.2-bak/src/lfg.c gimageview-0.2.2/src/lfg.c
--- gimageview-0.2.2-bak/src/lfg.c	Tue Jun  4 23:12:44 2002
+++ gimageview-0.2.2/src/lfg.c	Tue Jun  4 23:29:02 2002
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     FILE *fp;
     
     fp = fopen(filename,"rb");
+    if (!fp) return NULL;
 	
     lfg = read_lfg(fp);
     if (!lfg) return NULL;