diff --git a/FindBestParametersFile.m b/FindBestParametersFile.m
index d08ec6a3f52239b45f53ffec0ad0b392c5ba1683..5e15d89eb69757faa36db9a9afcfca677c66d271 100644
--- a/FindBestParametersFile.m
+++ b/FindBestParametersFile.m
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ if useSub
     pathToSearch=[pathToSearch '/**/*.mat'];
 end
 files=dir(pathToSearch);
-assert(length(files)>2,'No files to search in the provided path')
+assert(length(files)>0,'No files to search in the provided path')
 names=string({files.name});
 files(cellfun(@isempty,regexp(names, key)))=[]; %removes all files not containing "key"