diff --git a/multiqc_extract/v1.0/.gitignore b/multiqc_extract/v1.0/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 99793e2..0000000
--- a/multiqc_extract/v1.0/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-*.zip
-*.csv
-output_dir/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/multiqc_extract/v1.0/unzip_extract_stats.R b/multiqc_extract/v1.0/unzip_extract_stats.R
index 8738b50..d5fbc5a 100644
--- a/multiqc_extract/v1.0/unzip_extract_stats.R
+++ b/multiqc_extract/v1.0/unzip_extract_stats.R
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 library(jsonlite)
 
-zip_files <- list.files(path = ".", pattern = "\\.zip")
+zip_files <- list.files(path = ".", pattern = "multiqc_data\\.zip")
+
+if(length(zip_files)==0){
+  stop("No MultiQC ZIP files found. Exiting")
+}
 
 for (zip_file in zip_files){
   output_dir_name <- "output_dir"