diff --git a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
index 12fb92e5c0..66fb3cd6ad 100644
--- a/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
+++ b/KeywordSearch/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/keywordsearch/KeywordSearchIngestModule.java
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ public final class KeywordSearchIngestModule implements FileIngestModule {
             // unallocated and unused blocks can only have strings extracted from them. 
             if ((aType.equals(TskData.TSK_DB_FILES_TYPE_ENUM.UNALLOC_BLOCKS) || aType.equals(TskData.TSK_DB_FILES_TYPE_ENUM.UNUSED_BLOCKS))) {
                 extractStringsAndIndex(aFile);
+                return;
             }
 
             final long size = aFile.getSize();