diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9febceb6..edbfe951 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ NEW the chi^2 calculation in single-histogram and asymmetry fits is parallelized
     if musrfit is built using a compiler supporting OpenMP (e.g. GCC >= 4.2)
     Using --disable-omp this feature can be disabled on the configure level.
 NEW any2many: force the user to define the exact NeXus ouput format (HDF4,HDF5,XML)
+FIXED broken run-list interface to msr2data in musredit/musrgui (MUSR-202)
 FIXED some severe issues in the run-number-digit determination of msr2data introduced in late 2010
 FIXED a musrview exception error when starting with t0's very much off to the positive side in the msr-file (MUSR-199)
 FIXED a linking problem when only shared libraries are built on Cygwin
diff --git a/src/musredit/PTextEdit.cpp b/src/musredit/PTextEdit.cpp
index cd56ac41..6eacd217 100644
--- a/src/musredit/PTextEdit.cpp
+++ b/src/musredit/PTextEdit.cpp
@@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@ void PTextEdit::musrMsr2Data()
         break;
       case 2:  // run list file name
         runListFileName = fMsr2DataParam->runListFileName;
-        fi = runListFileName;
+        fi.setFile(runListFileName);
         if (!fi.exists()) {
           str = QString("Run List File '%1' doesn't exist.").arg(runListFileName);
           QMessageBox::critical(this, "**ERROR**",
diff --git a/src/musrgui/PTextEdit.cpp b/src/musrgui/PTextEdit.cpp
index a8e7d353..8858fd00 100644
--- a/src/musrgui/PTextEdit.cpp
+++ b/src/musrgui/PTextEdit.cpp
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ void PTextEdit::musrMsr2Data()
         break;
       case 2:  // run list file name
         runListFileName = fMsr2DataParam->runListFileName;
-        fi = runListFileName;
+        fi.setFile(runListFileName);
         if (!fi.exists()) {
           str = QString("Run List File '%1' doesn't exist.").arg(runListFileName);
           QMessageBox::critical(this, "**ERROR**",