diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 172c0d7..f32023f 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Tag v1.0.0.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-09-23: Tested the live-photo hash check's error paths (issue 117). Tests
+  download a live photo whose ZIP names an unknown compression method, one whose
+  ZIP has no image entry and one with no video entry, and check that nothing is
+  stored and the error names the file ID; the unreadable one is not retried.
 - 2026-09-23: Checked downloaded originals against their recorded content hash
   (issue 68). `downloadFile`, which `quak get`, the content cache and backup all
   use, hashes the decrypted bytes (unkeyed BLAKE2b-512, standard base64) and
diff --git a/test/download/download.test.ts b/test/download/download.test.ts
index 304dbd9..4e7e03e 100644
--- a/test/download/download.test.ts
+++ b/test/download/download.test.ts
@@ -1747,4 +1747,42 @@ describe("downloadFile content hash", () => {
 
         expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
     });
+
+    it("rejects a live photo that is not a readable ZIP and does not retry", async () => {
+        // Bytes 8-9 of a ZIP entry's local header name its compression
+        // method; 99 is one no reader knows, so the entry cannot be read.
+        const zip = livePhotoZip.slice();
+        zip[8] = 99;
+        zip[9] = 0;
+        const t = setup(zip, { fileType: "livePhoto", hash: livePhotoHash });
+
+        await expect(t.run()).rejects.toThrow(
+            /file 999: live photo is not a readable ZIP/,
+        );
+
+        expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
+        expect(t.requests()).toBe(1);
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a live photo ZIP with no image entry", async () => {
+        const zip = zipSync({ "video.mov": patternBytes(900, 82) });
+        const t = setup(zip, { fileType: "livePhoto", hash: livePhotoHash });
+
+        await expect(t.run()).rejects.toThrow(
+            /file 999: live photo ZIP does not hold both an image and a video/,
+        );
+
+        expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
+    });
+
+    it("rejects a live photo ZIP with no video entry", async () => {
+        const zip = zipSync({ "image.heic": patternBytes(500, 81) });
+        const t = setup(zip, { fileType: "livePhoto", hash: livePhotoHash });
+
+        await expect(t.run()).rejects.toThrow(
+            /file 999: live photo ZIP does not hold both an image and a video/,
+        );
+
+        expect(readdirSync(t.dir)).toEqual([]);
+    });
 });