diff --git a/components/nif/niffile.hpp b/components/nif/niffile.hpp
index 2ef2a6fda..ceb9984fb 100644
--- a/components/nif/niffile.hpp
+++ b/components/nif/niffile.hpp
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ public:
     /// Used if file parsing fails
     void fail(const std::string &msg)
     {
-        std::string err = "NIFFile Error: " + msg;
+        std::string err = " NIFFile Error: " + msg;
         err += "\nFile: " + filename;
         throw std::runtime_error(err);
     }
     /// Used when something goes wrong, but not catastrophically so
     void warn(const std::string &msg)
     {
-        std::cerr << "NIFFile Warning: " << msg <<std::endl
+        std::cerr << " NIFFile Warning: " << msg <<std::endl
                   << "File: " << filename <<std::endl;
     }
 
diff --git a/components/nif/nifstream.cpp b/components/nif/nifstream.cpp
index 1b5f715bc..878b6b75f 100644
--- a/components/nif/nifstream.cpp
+++ b/components/nif/nifstream.cpp
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ std::string NIFStream::getString(size_t length)
     //Make sure we're not reading in too large of a string
     unsigned int fileSize = inp->size();
     if(fileSize != 0 && fileSize < length)
-        file->fail("Attempted to read a string with " + Ogre::StringConverter::toString(length) + "characters , but file is only "+Ogre::StringConverter::toString(fileSize)+ "bytes!");
+        file->fail("Attempted to read a string with " + Ogre::StringConverter::toString(length) + " characters , but file is only "+Ogre::StringConverter::toString(fileSize)+ " bytes!");
 
     std::vector<char> str (length+1, 0);