diff --git a/cloudstack/resource_cloudstack_user_data.go b/cloudstack/resource_cloudstack_user_data.go
index 65a3d2ca..1197e8f3 100644
--- a/cloudstack/resource_cloudstack_user_data.go
+++ b/cloudstack/resource_cloudstack_user_data.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package cloudstack
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"log"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/apache/cloudstack-go/v2/cloudstack"
@@ -125,11 +126,21 @@ func resourceCloudStackUserDataRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) er
 	p := cs.User.NewListUserDataParams()
 	p.SetId(id)
 
+	if v, ok := d.GetOk("project_id"); ok {
+		p.SetProjectid(v.(string))
+	}
+
 	userdata, err := cs.User.ListUserData(p)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Error retrieving user data with ID %s: %s", id, err)
 	}
 
+	if len(userdata.UserData) == 0 {
+		log.Printf("[DEBUG] User data %s no longer exists", id)
+		d.SetId("")
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	d.Set("name", userdata.UserData[0].Name)
 	d.Set("userdata", userdata.UserData[0].Userdata)
 	if d.Get("account").(string) != "" {