diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index f2a39f7..8c580c6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Changes in version 1.0.9 (release date:15-07-2026)
+
+-  Fix bug in readActiwatchCount. #92
+
 # Changes in version 1.0.8 (release date:11-03-2026)
 
 -  Update readActiwatchCount to handle behaviour upcoming data.table package release. #89
diff --git a/R/readActiwatchCount.R b/R/readActiwatchCount.R
index 284bde3..dcaa385 100644
--- a/R/readActiwatchCount.R
+++ b/R/readActiwatchCount.R
@@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ readActiwatchCount = function(filename = NULL,
     #=========================================================
     # ! Assumption that first data row equals the first row with 3 columns
     index = 0
-    
     quote = detectQuote(filename = filename, skip = 50)
-    NC = 1
-    while (NC >= 3) {
+    NC = 0
+    while (NC < 3) {
       testraw = data.table::fread(input = filename,
                                   header = FALSE, sep = ",", skip = index,
                                   nrows = 1, data.table = TRUE, quote = quote)
@@ -67,6 +66,7 @@ readActiwatchCount = function(filename = NULL,
       } else {
         index = index + 1
       }
+      if (nrow(testraw) == 0) stop("No data in file")
     }
     D = data.table::fread(input = filename, sep = ",",
                           skip = index, quote = quote, data.table = FALSE)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_readActiwatchCount.R b/tests/testthat/test_readActiwatchCount.R
index 5bf240c..86ae4e1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_readActiwatchCount.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_readActiwatchCount.R
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ test_that("Actiwatch csv is correctly read", {
 })
 test_that("Actiwatch awd is correctly read", {
   file = system.file("testfiles/Actiwatch.AWD", package = "GGIRread")
-  expect_warning(D <- readActiwatchCount(filename = file, timeformat = "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S",
-                                          desiredtz =  "Europe/Amsterdam"),
-                 regexp = "Detected 1 column names but the data has 3 columns*")
+  D <- readActiwatchCount(filename = file, timeformat = "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S",
+                                          desiredtz =  "Europe/Amsterdam")
   expect_equal(D$epochSize, 60)
   expect_equal(format(D$startTime), "2009-10-01 17:00:00")
   expect_equal(nrow(D$data), 329)
@@ -28,9 +27,8 @@ test_that("Actiwatch awd is correctly read", {
 
 test_that("Actiwatch awd error correctly", {
   file = system.file("testfiles/Actiwatch.AWD", package = "GGIRread")
-  expect_error(expect_warning(readActiwatchCount(filename = file,
+  expect_error(readActiwatchCount(filename = file,
                                   timeformat = "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S"),
-                              regexp = "Detected 1 column names but the data has 3 columns*"),
                regexp = "Time format*")
 
   expect_error(readActiwatchCount(filename = "",