diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/centralrepository/eventlisteners/IngestEventsListener.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/centralrepository/eventlisteners/IngestEventsListener.java
index ccca659574..cdbf490e9e 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/centralrepository/eventlisteners/IngestEventsListener.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/centralrepository/eventlisteners/IngestEventsListener.java
@@ -183,7 +183,10 @@ public class IngestEventsListener {
 
         @Override
         public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
-            if (getCeModuleInstanceCount() > 0) {
+           //if ingest is running we want there to check if there is a Correlation Engine module running 
+           //sometimes artifacts are generated by DSPs or other sources while ingest is not running
+           //in these cases we still want to create correlation attributes for those artifacts when appropriate
+            if (!IngestManager.getInstance().isIngestRunning() || getCeModuleInstanceCount() > 0) {
                 EamDb dbManager;
                 try {
                     dbManager = EamDb.getInstance();
@@ -197,7 +200,7 @@ public class IngestEventsListener {
                         break;
                     }
                 }
-            }
+            } 
         }
     }