diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36768b0..5212824 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ ambiguous situations.
 
 ### Fixed
 - Crawling of personal desktop with ILIAS 8
+- Crawling of empty personal desktops
 
 ## 3.5.1 - 2024-04-09
 
diff --git a/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py b/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
index 0be6448..aa00a87 100644
--- a/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
+++ b/PFERD/crawl/ilias/kit_ilias_html.py
@@ -1074,6 +1074,14 @@ class IliasPage:
         if soup.find("a", attrs={"href": lambda x: x and "block_type=pditems" in x}):
             return True
 
+        # Empty personal desktop has zero (0) markers. Match on the text...
+        if alert := soup.select_one(".alert-info"):
+            text = alert.getText().lower()
+            if "you have not yet selected any favourites" in text:
+                return True
+            if "sie haben aktuell noch keine favoriten ausgewählt" in text:
+                return True
+
         # Video listing embeds do not have complete ILIAS html. Try to match them by
         # their video listing table
         video_table = soup.find(