diff --git a/cognee/infrastructure/files/utils/guess_file_type.py b/cognee/infrastructure/files/utils/guess_file_type.py
index edd2d89b0b..dcdd68cadf 100644
--- a/cognee/infrastructure/files/utils/guess_file_type.py
+++ b/cognee/infrastructure/files/utils/guess_file_type.py
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@ def guess_file_type(file: BinaryIO) -> filetype.Type:
     """
     file_type = filetype.guess(file)
 
+    # If file type could not be determined consider it a plain text file as they don't have magic number encoding
+    if file_type is None:
+        from filetype.types.base import Type
+
+        file_type = Type("text/plain", "txt")
+
     if file_type is None:
         raise FileTypeException(f"Unknown file detected: {file.name}.")