diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction+SynthesizedLandingPage.swift b/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction+SynthesizedLandingPage.swift
index 0b76352f9..0c33da016 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction+SynthesizedLandingPage.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction+SynthesizedLandingPage.swift
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ extension MergeAction {
     
     func readRootNodeRenderReferencesIn(dataDirectory: URL) throws -> RootRenderReferences {
         func inner(url: URL) throws -> [RootRenderReferences.Information] {
-            try fileManager.contentsOfDirectory(at: url, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: [])
+            // Path might not exist (e.g. tutorials for a reference-only archive)
+            guard let contents = try? fileManager.contentsOfDirectory(at: url, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: [])
+            else { return [] }
+            return try contents
                 .compactMap {
                     guard $0.pathExtension == "json" else {
                         return nil
diff --git a/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction.swift b/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction.swift
index cc94bc1b8..d68fa32af 100644
--- a/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction.swift
+++ b/Sources/SwiftDocCUtilities/Action/Actions/Merge/MergeAction.swift
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ struct MergeAction: AsyncAction {
                 let fromDirectory = archive.appendingPathComponent(directoryToCopy, isDirectory: true)
                 let toDirectory = targetURL.appendingPathComponent(directoryToCopy, isDirectory: true)
 
+                guard fileManager.directoryExists(atPath: fromDirectory.path) else { continue }
+
                 // Ensure that the destination directory exist in case the first archive didn't have that kind of pages.
                 // This is necessary when merging a reference-only archive with a tutorial-only archive.
                 try? fileManager.createDirectory(at: toDirectory, withIntermediateDirectories: false, attributes: nil)
diff --git a/Tests/SwiftDocCUtilitiesTests/MergeActionTests.swift b/Tests/SwiftDocCUtilitiesTests/MergeActionTests.swift
index e03f03330..95b907c6b 100644
--- a/Tests/SwiftDocCUtilitiesTests/MergeActionTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SwiftDocCUtilitiesTests/MergeActionTests.swift
@@ -659,7 +659,50 @@ class MergeActionTests: XCTestCase {
             "doc://org.swift.test/documentation/second.json",
         ])
     }
-    
+
+    func testSingleReferenceOnlyArchiveMerging() async throws {
+        let fileSystem = try TestFileSystem(
+            folders: [
+                Folder(name: "Output.doccarchive", content: []),
+                Self.makeArchive(
+                    name: "First",
+                    documentationPages: [
+                        "First",
+                        "First/SomeClass",
+                        "First/SomeClass/someProperty",
+                        "First/SomeClass/someFunction(:_)",
+                    ],
+                    tutorialPages: []
+                ),
+            ]
+        )
+
+        let logStorage = LogHandle.LogStorage()
+        let action = MergeAction(
+            archives: [
+                URL(fileURLWithPath: "/First.doccarchive"),
+            ],
+            landingPageInfo: testLandingPageInfo,
+            outputURL: URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Output.doccarchive"),
+            fileManager: fileSystem
+        )
+
+        _ = try await action.perform(logHandle: .memory(logStorage))
+        XCTAssertEqual(logStorage.text, "", "The action didn't log anything")
+
+        let synthesizedRootNode = try fileSystem.renderNode(atPath: "/Output.doccarchive/data/documentation.json")
+        XCTAssertEqual(synthesizedRootNode.metadata.title, "Test Landing Page Name")
+        XCTAssertEqual(synthesizedRootNode.metadata.roleHeading, "Test Landing Page Kind")
+        XCTAssertEqual(synthesizedRootNode.topicSectionsStyle, .detailedGrid)
+        XCTAssertEqual(synthesizedRootNode.topicSections.flatMap { [$0.title].compactMap({ $0 }) + $0.identifiers }, [
+            // No title
+            "doc://org.swift.test/documentation/first.json",
+        ])
+        XCTAssertEqual(synthesizedRootNode.references.keys.sorted(), [
+            "doc://org.swift.test/documentation/first.json",
+        ])
+    }
+
     func testErrorWhenArchivesContainOverlappingData() async throws {
         let fileSystem = try TestFileSystem(
             folders: [
@@ -953,14 +996,13 @@ class MergeActionTests: XCTestCase {
         Output.doccarchive/
         ├─ data/
         │  ├─ documentation.json
-        │  ├─ documentation/
-        │  │  ├─ first.json
-        │  │  ├─ first/
-        │  │  │  ╰─ article.json
-        │  │  ├─ second.json
-        │  │  ╰─ second/
-        │  │     ╰─ article.json
-        │  ╰─ tutorials/
+        │  ╰─ documentation/
+        │     ├─ first.json
+        │     ├─ first/
+        │     │  ╰─ article.json
+        │     ├─ second.json
+        │     ╰─ second/
+        │        ╰─ article.json
         ├─ downloads/
         │  ├─ First/
         │  ╰─ Second/