diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/ImportableItem.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/ImportableItem.java
index 6523966243..2503950806 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/ImportableItem.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/ImportableItem.java
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 /*
- * #%L
- * Alfresco Repository
- * %%
- * Copyright (C) 2005 - 2016 Alfresco Software Limited
- * %%
- * This file is part of the Alfresco software. 
- * If the software was purchased under a paid Alfresco license, the terms of 
- * the paid license agreement will prevail.  Otherwise, the software is 
- * provided under the following open source license terms:
- * 
- * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- * 
- * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * #%L
+ * Alfresco Repository
+ * %%
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 - 2016 Alfresco Software Limited
+ * %%
+ * This file is part of the Alfresco software. 
+ * If the software was purchased under a paid Alfresco license, the terms of 
+ * the paid license agreement will prevail.  Otherwise, the software is 
+ * provided under the following open source license terms:
+ * 
+ * Alfresco is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * 
+ * Alfresco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
@@ -36,8 +36,11 @@ import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.SortedSet;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
 
+import org.alfresco.repo.bulkimport.impl.FileUtils;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.ToStringBuilder;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 /**
  * This class is a DTO that represents an "importable item" - a series of files
@@ -55,6 +58,8 @@ public final class ImportableItem
         OTHER
     };
 
+    protected static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(ImportableItem.class);
+    
     private ContentAndMetadata headRevision = new ContentAndMetadata();
     private SortedSet<VersionedContentAndMetadata> versionEntries = null;
     private NodeRef nodeRef;
@@ -193,6 +198,7 @@ public final class ImportableItem
                     }
                     catch (IOException e)
                     {
+                        logger.error("Attributes for file '" + FileUtils.getFileName(contentFile) + "' could not be read.", e);
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -269,6 +275,10 @@ public final class ImportableItem
                 }
                 catch (IOException e)
                 {
+                    if (logger.isWarnEnabled()) 
+                    {
+                        logger.warn("Size for the metadata file '" + FileUtils.getFileName(metadataFile) + "' could not be retrieved.", e);
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/impl/BulkImportTest.java b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/impl/BulkImportTest.java
index 3695af97ca..302cc2eac3 100644
--- a/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/impl/BulkImportTest.java
+++ b/source/test-java/org/alfresco/repo/bulkimport/impl/BulkImportTest.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@ public class BulkImportTest extends AbstractBulkImportTests
 
         System.out.println(bulkImporter.getStatus());
 
-        assertEquals("", 74, bulkImporter.getStatus().getNumberOfContentNodesCreated());
+        assertEquals(74, bulkImporter.getStatus().getNumberOfContentNodesCreated());
 
         checkFiles(folderNode, null, 2, 9, new ExpectedFile[] {
                 new ExpectedFile("quickImg1.xls", MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_EXCEL),
@@ -627,8 +628,9 @@ public class BulkImportTest extends AbstractBulkImportTests
         NodeImporter nodeImporter = null;
 
         File source = ResourceUtils.getFile("classpath:bulkimport4");
-        
-        String fileName = new String("135 CarbonÔÇô13 NMR spectroscopy_DS_NS_final_cau.txt".getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
+        //Simulate the name of the file with an invalid encoding.
+        String fileName = new String("135 CarbonÔÇô13 NMR spectroscopy_DS_NS_final_cau.txt".getBytes(Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1")), 
+                                      Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
         Path dest = source.toPath().resolve("encoding");
         try
         {
@@ -636,6 +638,7 @@ public class BulkImportTest extends AbstractBulkImportTests
         }
         catch (FileAlreadyExistsException ex)
         {
+            //It is fine if the folder already exists, though it should not.
         }
         Path destFile = dest.resolve(fileName);
 
@@ -653,7 +656,7 @@ public class BulkImportTest extends AbstractBulkImportTests
         bulkImportParameters.setBatchSize(40);
         bulkImporter.bulkImport(bulkImportParameters, nodeImporter);
 
-        assertEquals("", 1, bulkImporter.getStatus().getNumberOfContentNodesCreated());
+        assertEquals(1, bulkImporter.getStatus().getNumberOfContentNodesCreated());
 
         checkFiles(folderNode, null, 0, 1, 
                    new ExpectedFile[] { new ExpectedFile(fileName, MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN)},