diff --git a/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py b/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
index 96b38512d..7c7a49eca 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/apps/retrieval/main.py
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ def save_docs_to_vector_db(
                 add_start_index=True,
             )
         elif app.state.config.TEXT_SPLITTER == "token":
-
+            tiktoken.get_encoding(app.state.config.TIKTOKEN_ENCODING_NAME)
             text_splitter = TokenTextSplitter(
                 encoding_name=str(app.state.config.TIKTOKEN_ENCODING_NAME),
                 chunk_size=app.state.config.CHUNK_SIZE,