diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1411ddf..7204938 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.3.0.5.9005
+
+* Return `NULL` in registry getting regardless of error.
+
 ## 0.3.0.5.9004
 
 * Fix usage of `base` parameter in `$find` method with idempotent resources.
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index daafca6..b80cade 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: Director is responsible for managing and loading resources in
     consecutive loads of resources (so that we can tell if a script was modified
     since we last ran it) and defining parsers that allow us to generalize from
     the pernicious simple linear execution that is common to R.
-Version: 0.3.0.5.9004
+Version: 0.3.0.5.9005
 Authors@R: c(person("Robert", "Krzyzanowski",
     email = "technoguyrob@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")))
 Depends:
diff --git a/R/registry.R b/R/registry.R
index 7e1d243..279be09 100644
--- a/R/registry.R
+++ b/R/registry.R
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ registry <- methods::setRefClass('registry',
                     sQuote(crayon::red(key)), " in registry with root ",
                     sQuote(crayon::blue(.root)))
         } else if (file.info(filename)$isdir) {
-          stop("There is no registry item with key ", sQuote(crayon::red(key)),
+          if (soft) NULL
+          else stop("There is no registry item with key ", sQuote(crayon::red(key)),
                " in registry with root ", sQuote(crayon::blue(.root)),
                " because this key points to a directory.")
         } else filename
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-registry.R b/tests/testthat/test-registry.R
index bde3217..c674b5c 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-registry.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-registry.R
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ within_file_structure(list(), {
 
   test_that('the .sanitize_key method errors if read = TRUE and the key is a directory', {
     within_file_structure(dir = root, list(some_dir = list()), {
-      expect_error(registry(root)$.sanitize_key('some_dir', read = TRUE),
-                   'this key points to a directory')
+      expect_null(registry(root)$.sanitize_key('some_dir', read = TRUE, soft = TRUE))
     })
   })