diff --git a/src/app-layer-ftp.c b/src/app-layer-ftp.c
index b3c7d88a13..9f86df7d2d 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-ftp.c
+++ b/src/app-layer-ftp.c
@@ -1093,6 +1093,7 @@ static AppLayerResult FTPDataParse(Flow *f, FtpDataState *ftpdata_state,
             ret = -1;
         }
         FlowFreeStorageById(f, AppLayerExpectationGetFlowId());
+        ftpdata_state->tx_data.files_opened = 1;
     } else {
         if (input_len != 0) {
             ret = FileAppendData(ftpdata_state->files, input, input_len);