diff --git a/modules/util/viirs_l1b_l2.py b/modules/util/viirs_l1b_l2.py
index 139550da514929272203a04d1082c148eec17d66..956006eaf3a74f78ac49202f9f90f729caa51efa 100644
--- a/modules/util/viirs_l1b_l2.py
+++ b/modules/util/viirs_l1b_l2.py
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ def run_all(directory, out_directory, day_night='ANY', start=10):
 
     print('Start, number of files: ', num_files)
     # hist_10 = np.zeros((10), dtype=np.int64)
+    kept_cnt = 0
 
     for idx, data_f in enumerate(data_files):
         # if idx % 4 == 0:  # if we want to skip some files
@@ -130,7 +131,8 @@ def run_all(directory, out_directory, day_night='ANY', start=10):
                 print(e)
                 data_h5f.close()
                 continue
-            print(data_f, int(100 * (kept/total)))
+            kept_cnt += kept
+            print(data_f, kept_cnt, int(100 * (kept/total)))
             f_cnt += 1
 
             data_h5f.close()