diff --git a/R/api_download.R b/R/api_download.R
index 051048d62..ae9c87e39 100644
--- a/R/api_download.R
+++ b/R/api_download.R
@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@
     )
     # Try to download
     while (n_tries > 0) {
+        # Check if the output file already exists
+        if (.raster_is_valid(output_file)) {
+            local_asset <- .tile_from_file(
+                file = output_file, base_tile = asset,
+                band = .tile_bands(asset), update_bbox = TRUE,
+                labels = .tile_labels(asset)
+            )
+
+            return(local_asset)
+        }
         # Update token (for big tiffs and slow networks)
         asset <- .cube_token_generator(asset)
         # Crop and download
@@ -50,7 +60,7 @@
                 output_file = output_file,
                 gdal_params = gdal_params
             ),
-            default = NULL
+            .default = NULL
         )
         # Check if the downloaded file is valid
         if (.has(local_asset) && .raster_is_valid(output_file)) {
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-cube_copy.R b/tests/testthat/test-cube_copy.R
index ca593b08f..31316a895 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-cube_copy.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-cube_copy.R
@@ -214,3 +214,41 @@ test_that("Copy remote cube works (specific region with resampling)", {
 
     unlink(data_dir, recursive = TRUE)
 })
+
+test_that("Copy invalid files", {
+    data_dir <- system.file("extdata/raster/mod13q1", package = "sits")
+
+    cube <- sits_cube(
+        source = "BDC",
+        collection = "MOD13Q1-6.1",
+        data_dir = data_dir,
+        multicores = 2,
+        progress = FALSE
+    )
+
+    # Editing cube with invalid files
+    # (skipping the first line to bypass the cube check and simulate a
+    # cube containing invalid files)
+    .fi(cube) <- .fi(cube) |>
+                    dplyr::mutate(
+                        path = ifelse(
+                            dplyr::row_number() > 1,
+                            paste0(path, "_invalid-file"),
+                            path
+                        )
+                    )
+
+
+    cube_local <- sits_cube_copy(
+        cube = cube,
+        output_dir = tempdir(),
+        progress = FALSE
+    )
+
+    expect_equal(nrow(cube_local), 1)
+    expect_equal(length(sits_timeline(cube_local)), 1)
+
+    # Clean
+    files <- cube_local[["file_info"]][[1]][["path"]]
+    unlink(files)
+})