diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ae097ff..1b1c10b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: restatapi
 Type: Package
 Title: Search and Retrieve Data from Eurostat Database
-Date: 2023-10-23
-Version: 0.22.2
+Date: 2023-12-29
+Version: 0.22.3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Authors@R: c(person("Mátyás", "Mészáros", email = "matyas.meszaros@ec.europa.eu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
             person("Sebastian", "Weinand", role = "ctb"))
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 004e4d6..7ba16f7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# restatapi 0.22.3
+
+- additional check in the get_eurostat_dsd() and get_eurostat_codelist() for failing writing data to disk because of failing network connection 
+
 # restatapi 0.22.2
 
 - correcting the get_compressed_sdmx() function not closing connections
diff --git a/R/extract_data.R b/R/extract_data.R
index c2a915b..46d0730 100644
--- a/R/extract_data.R
+++ b/R/extract_data.R
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #' 
 
 extract_data<-function(xml_lf,keep_flags=FALSE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,bulk=TRUE,check_toc=FALSE){
-  if (getOption("restatapi_verbose",FALSE))  {message("extract_data - API version:",get("rav",envir=restatapi::.restatapi_env))}
+  # if (getOption("restatapi_verbose",FALSE))  {message("extract_data - API version:",get("rav",envir=restatapi::.restatapi_env))}
   rav<-get("rav",envir=restatapi::.restatapi_env)
   prefix<-switch(rav,"1"="generic:","2"="g:")
   if(bulk){
diff --git a/R/get_eurostat_codelist.R b/R/get_eurostat_codelist.R
index a0a83ef..e9dec8d 100644
--- a/R/get_eurostat_codelist.R
+++ b/R/get_eurostat_codelist.R
@@ -72,13 +72,15 @@ get_eurostat_codelist <- function(id,
           tryCatch({utils::download.file(cls_endpoint,temp,dmethod)},
                    error = function(e) {
                      message("get_eurostat_codelist - Error by the download of the codelist file:",'\n',paste(unlist(e),collapse="\n"))
+                     cls_xml<-NULL
                    },
                    warning = function(w) {
                      message("get_eurostat_codelist - Warning by the download of the codelist file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
                      tbc<-FALSE
                      cls_xml<-NULL
                    })
-          if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+          if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+          if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
             message("Trying to extract the codelist from: ",temp)
             tryCatch({cls_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
                      error = function(e) {
@@ -87,24 +89,27 @@ get_eurostat_codelist <- function(id,
                      },
                      warning = function(w) {
                        message("get_eurostat_codelist - There is warning by the extraction of the XML from the downloaded codelist file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
+                       cls_xml<-NULL
                      })
           } else {
             cls_xml<-NULL
           }
         } else {
           tryCatch({utils::download.file(cls_endpoint,temp,dmethod,quiet=TRUE)},
-                   error = function(e) {message("There is an error by the download of the codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                   error = function(e) {message("get_eurostat_codelist - There is an error by the download of the codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                     cls_xml<-NULL
                    },
-                   warning = function(w) {message("There is a warning by the download of the codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                   warning = function(w) {message("get_eurostat_codelist - There is a warning by the download of the codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                      tbc<-FALSE
                      cls_xml<-NULL
                    })
-          if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+          if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+          if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
             tryCatch({cls_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
-                     error = function(e) {message("There is an error by the reading of the downloaded codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                     error = function(e) {message("get_eurostat_codelist - There is an error by the reading of the downloaded codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                        cls_xml<-NULL
                      },
-                     warning = function(w) {message("There is a warning by the reading of the downloaded codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                     warning = function(w) {message("get_eurostat_codelist - There is a warning by the reading of the downloaded codelist file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                        cls_xml<-NULL
                      })
           } else {
@@ -131,9 +136,9 @@ get_eurostat_codelist <- function(id,
         }  
       } else {
         # cls<-NULL
-        # if (verbose) {
-        #    message("get_eurostat_codelist - The cls_xml is NULL. Please check in a browser the url below. If it provides valid reponse you can try again to download the codelist.\n ",cls_endpoint)
-        # }
+        if (verbose) {
+           message("get_eurostat_codelist - The cls_xml is NULL. Please check in a browser the url below. If it provides valid response you can try again to download the codelist.\n ",cls_endpoint)
+        }
       }
       if (!is.null(cls)){
         data.table::as.data.table(cls,stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
diff --git a/R/get_eurostat_dsd.R b/R/get_eurostat_dsd.R
index ea4fd35..96fea93 100644
--- a/R/get_eurostat_dsd.R
+++ b/R/get_eurostat_dsd.R
@@ -83,13 +83,16 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
         tryCatch({utils::download.file(dsd_endpoint,temp,dmethod)},
                  error = function(e) {
                    message("get_eurostat_dsd - Error by the download of the DSD file:",'\n',paste(unlist(e),collapse="\n"))
+                   dsd_xml<-NULL
                  },
                  warning = function(w) {
                    message("get_eurostat_dsd - Warning by the download of the DSD file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
                    tbc<-FALSE
                    dsd_xml<-NULL
                  })
-        if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+        message("\nget_eurostat_dsd - class(temp): ",class(temp)," - is.na(temp): ",is.na(temp)," - file.size(temp): ", file.size(temp)," - temp: ",temp)
+        if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+        if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
           message("Trying to extract the DSD from: ",temp)
           tryCatch({dsd_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
                  error = function(e) {
@@ -98,24 +101,27 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
                  },
                  warning = function(w) {
                    message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is warning by the extraction of the XML from the downloaded DSD file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
+                   dsd_xml<-NULL
                  })
         } else {
           dsd_xml<-NULL
         }
       } else {
         tryCatch({utils::download.file(dsd_endpoint,temp,dmethod,quiet=TRUE)},
-                 error = function(e) {message("There is an error by the download of the DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                 error = function(e) {message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is an error by the download of the DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                   dsd_xml<-NULL
                  },
-                 warning = function(w) {message("There is a warning by the download of the DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                 warning = function(w) {message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is a warning by the download of the DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                    tbc<-FALSE
                    dsd_xml<-NULL
                  })
-        if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+        if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+        if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
           tryCatch({dsd_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
-                 error = function(e) {message("There is an error by the reading of the downloaded DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                 error = function(e) {message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is an error by the reading of the downloaded DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                    dsd_xml<-NULL
                  },
-                 warning = function(w) {message("There is an error by the reading of the downloaded DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
+                 warning = function(w) {message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is an error by the reading of the downloaded DSD file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                    dsd_xml<-NULL
                  })
         } else {
@@ -162,14 +168,15 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
             tryCatch({utils::download.file(cc_endpoint,temp,dmethod)},
                      error = function(e) {
                        message("get_eurostat_dsd - Error by the download of the CC file:",'\n',paste(unlist(e),collapse="\n"))
-                     
+                       cc_xml<-NULL
                      },
                      warning = function(w) {
                        message("get_eurostat_dsd - Warning by the download of the CC file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
                        tbc<-FALSE
                        cc_xml<-NULL
                      })
-            if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+            if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+            if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
               message("get_eurostat_dsd - Trying to extract the CC from: ",temp)
               tryCatch({cc_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
                        error = function(e) {
@@ -178,6 +185,7 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
                        },
                        warning = function(w) {
                          message("get_eurostat_dsd - There is warning by the extraction of the XML from the downloaded CC file:",'\n',paste(unlist(w),collapse="\n"))
+                         cc_xml<-NULL
                        })
             } else {
               cc_xml<-NULL
@@ -192,7 +200,8 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
                        tbc<-FALSE
                        cc_xml<-NULL
                      })
-            if (file.size(temp)!=0 & tbc) {
+            if (is.na(file.size(temp))) {temp_size=0} else {temp_size=file.size(temp)}
+            if (temp_size!=0 & tbc) {
               tryCatch({cc_xml<-xml2::read_xml(temp)},
                        error = function(e) {message("There is an error by the reading of the downloaded CC file. Run the same command with verbose=TRUE option to get more info on the issue.")
                          cc_xml<-NULL
@@ -224,7 +233,7 @@ get_eurostat_dsd <- function(id,
       } else {
 #       dsd<-NULL
         if (verbose) {
-          message("get_eurostat_dsd - The dsd_xml is NULL. Please check in a browser the url below. If it provides valid reponse you can try again to download the DSD.\n ",dsd_endpoint)
+          message("get_eurostat_dsd - The dsd_xml is NULL. Please check in a browser the url below. If it provides valid response you can try again to download the DSD.\n ",dsd_endpoint)
         }
       }
     }