diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index cf962be..32fbbcd 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # xlcutter (development version)
 
+* `xlsx_cutter()` internal loop won't be interrupted in case a file can't be
+  parsed. This avoid loosing potentially hours of computation when one of the
+  last files fails and made the entire function crash. All parsing issues are
+  now returned as warnings at the end (#13, @Bisaloo).
+
 # xlcutter 0.1.1
 
 * `xlsx_cutter()` no longer fails when reading excel files with comments on
diff --git a/R/xlsx_cutter.R b/R/xlsx_cutter.R
index d4c4a2d..e2b596a 100644
--- a/R/xlsx_cutter.R
+++ b/R/xlsx_cutter.R
@@ -69,10 +69,25 @@ xlsx_cutter <- function(
 
   res <- lapply(
     data_files,
-    single_xlsx_cutter,
-    template_file, data_sheet, coords, noms
+    function(f) {
+      tryCatch(
+        single_xlsx_cutter(f, template_file, data_sheet, coords, noms),
+        warning = function(c) NULL,
+        error = function(c) NULL
+      )
+    }
   )
 
+  failed <- vapply(res, is.null, logical(1))
+
+  if (any(failed)) {
+    warning(
+      "parsing failed for ", sum(failed), " files:\n  - ",
+      paste(data_files[failed], collapse = "\n  - "),
+      call. = FALSE
+    )
+  }
+
   res <- as.data.frame(do.call(rbind, res))
 
   type.convert(res, as.is = TRUE)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/_snaps/xlsx_cutter.md b/tests/testthat/_snaps/xlsx_cutter.md
index a302d27..7c5aac1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/_snaps/xlsx_cutter.md
+++ b/tests/testthat/_snaps/xlsx_cutter.md
@@ -63,3 +63,9 @@
       ]
     }
 
+# failures don't stop loop
+
+    parsing failed for 2 files:
+      - nonexistent_file.xlsx
+      - nonexistent_file2.xlsx
+
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-xlsx_cutter.R b/tests/testthat/test-xlsx_cutter.R
index c4958b2..92bf330 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-xlsx_cutter.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-xlsx_cutter.R
@@ -19,3 +19,16 @@ test_that("xlsx_cutter() works", {
   )
 
 })
+
+test_that("failures don't stop loop", {
+
+  expect_snapshot_warning(
+    res <- xlsx_cutter( # nolintr: assignment_linter.
+      c("nonexistent_file.xlsx", "nonexistent_file2.xlsx", data_files),
+      template_file
+    )
+  )
+
+  expect_identical(nrow(res), length(data_files))
+
+})