diff --git a/src/errors.rs b/src/errors.rs
index 9e619d2..831e4b6 100644
--- a/src/errors.rs
+++ b/src/errors.rs
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ pub enum Error {
     /// C API failed to open a file (No return code provided)
     CouldNotOpen { path: PathBuf, mode: FileMode },
     /// A path could not be converted to &OsStr
-    InvalidOsStr,
-    /// A path could not be converted to &CStr because it had a null byte
-    NullInStr(std::ffi::NulError),
+    InvalidOsStr(Option<std::ffi::NulError>),
     /// Checking the number of atoms failed while reading a frame
     CouldNotCheckNAtoms(Box<Error>),
     /// Error for an out-of-range numeric conversion
@@ -61,7 +59,13 @@ impl std::error::Error for Error {
     fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn std::error::Error + 'static)> {
         use Error::*;
         match &self {
-            NullInStr(err) => Some(err),
+            InvalidOsStr(err) => {
+                if let Some(err) = err {
+                    Some(err)
+                } else {
+                    None
+                }
+            },
             CouldNotCheckNAtoms(err) => Some(err.as_ref()),
             _ => None,
         }
@@ -75,12 +79,6 @@ impl From<(ErrorCode, ErrorTask)> for Error {
     }
 }
 
-impl From<std::ffi::NulError> for Error {
-    fn from(err: std::ffi::NulError) -> Self {
-        Self::NullInStr(err)
-    }
-}
-
 impl From<(&Path, FileMode)> for Error {
     fn from(value: (&Path, FileMode)) -> Self {
         let (path, mode) = value;
@@ -119,9 +117,8 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
             CouldNotOpen { path, mode } => {
                 write!(f, "Could not open file at {:?} in mode {:?}", path, mode)
             }
-            InvalidOsStr => write!(f, "Paths must be valid unicode on this platform"),
-            NullInStr(_err) => write!(f, "Paths cannot include null bytes"),
-            CouldNotCheckNAtoms(_err) => {
+            InvalidOsStr(_) => write!(f, "Cannot convert path to CString."),
+            CouldNotCheckNAtoms(_) => {
                 write!(f, "Failed to read number of atoms in trajectory file")
             }
             OutOfRange {
@@ -249,8 +246,6 @@ pub type Result<T, E = Error> = std::result::Result<T, E>;
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
-    use std::ffi::CString;
-    use std::ffi::NulError;
 
     #[test]
     fn test_is_eof() {
@@ -294,12 +289,6 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_from_correct_type() {
-        let nul_err: NulError = CString::new(b"foo\0".to_vec()).unwrap_err();
-        let nul_err2: NulError = CString::new(b"foo\0".to_vec()).unwrap_err();
-        let err = Error::from(nul_err);
-        let expected = Error::NullInStr(nul_err2);
-        assert_eq!(expected, err);
-
         let code = 3.into();
         let task = ErrorTask::Read;
         let expected = Error::CApiError { code, task };
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 7eb953b..ab1b25a 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -105,8 +105,11 @@ impl FileMode {
 }
 
 fn path_to_cstring(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<CString> {
-    let s = path.as_ref().to_str().ok_or(Error::InvalidOsStr)?;
-    Ok(CString::new(s)?)
+    if let Some(s) = path.as_ref().to_str() {
+        CString::new(s).map_err(|e| Error::InvalidOsStr(Some(e)))
+    } else {
+        Err(Error::InvalidOsStr(None))
+    }
 }
 
 fn to<I, O>(value: I, task: ErrorTask, name: &'static str) -> Result<O>
@@ -621,21 +624,28 @@ mod tests {
 
     #[test]
     fn test_path_to_cstring() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
-        let result_invalid = path_to_cstring(PathBuf::from("invalid/\0path"));
-
-        if let Err(err) = result_invalid {
-            match err {
-                Error::NullInStr(_) => (),
-                Error::InvalidOsStr => (),
-                _ => panic!("Improper error type for path_to_cstring"),
+        // A valid string should convert to CString successfully
+        let valid_result = path_to_cstring(PathBuf::from("test"));
+        match valid_result {
+            Ok(s) => {
+                assert_eq!(s, CString::new("test")?);
             }
-        } else {
-            panic!("path_to_cstring should return Err if there are null bytes");
+            Err(_) => panic!("Valid Path failed to convert to CString.")
         }
 
-        let result_valid = path_to_cstring("valid/path");
-        assert_eq!(result_valid, Ok(CString::new("valid/path")?));
-
+        // \0 in path should result in an InvalidOsStr(Some(NulError)) 
+        let result = path_to_cstring(PathBuf::from("invalid/\0path"));
+        match result {
+            Ok(_) => panic!("Cstring conversion did not fail"),
+            Err(e) => {
+                match e {
+                    Error::InvalidOsStr(opt) => {
+                        assert!(opt.is_some())
+                    }
+                    _ => panic!("Wrong error type. (This should never happend).")
+                }
+            }
+        }
         Ok(())
     }