diff --git a/lib/cppcheck.cpp b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
index 9c411a8b0af..10e2f3738bf 100644
--- a/lib/cppcheck.cpp
+++ b/lib/cppcheck.cpp
@@ -1684,7 +1684,7 @@ void CppCheck::tooManyConfigsError(const std::string &file, const int numberOfCo
     msg << "Too many #ifdef configurations - cppcheck only checks " << mSettings.maxConfigs;
     if (numberOfConfigurations > mSettings.maxConfigs)
         msg << " of " << numberOfConfigurations << " configurations. Use --force to check all configurations.\n";
-    if (file.empty())
+    else if (file.empty())
         msg << " configurations. Use --force to check all configurations. For more details, use --enable=information.\n";
     msg << "The checking of the file will be interrupted because there are too many "
         "#ifdef configurations. Checking of all #ifdef configurations can be forced "
diff --git a/test/testcppcheck.cpp b/test/testcppcheck.cpp
index 8535bbfe47c..a9ef10e79a7 100644
--- a/test/testcppcheck.cpp
+++ b/test/testcppcheck.cpp
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ class TestCppcheck : public TestFixture {
         ErrorLogger2 errorLogger;
         CppCheck::getErrorMessages(errorLogger);
         ASSERT(!errorLogger.ids.empty());
+        ASSERT(!errorLogger.errmsgs.empty());
+
+        const auto it = std::next(errorLogger.errmsgs.cbegin());
+        const std::string shortMsg = it->toString(false, templateFormat, "");
+        const std::string debugMsg = it->toString(true, templateFormat, "");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(shortMsg, "nofile:0:0: information: Too many #ifdef configurations - cppcheck only checks 12 configurations. Use --force to check all configurations. For more details, use --enable=information. [toomanyconfigs]");
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(debugMsg, "nofile:0:0: information: The checking of the file will be interrupted because there are too many #ifdef configurations. Checking of all #ifdef configurations can be forced by --force command line option or from GUI preferences. However that may increase the checking time. For more details, use --enable=information. [toomanyconfigs]");
 
         // Check if there are duplicate error ids in errorLogger.id
         std::string duplicate;