diff --git a/ts/sql/Server.ts b/ts/sql/Server.ts
index 3f941d16e..f1c9c1ba9 100644
--- a/ts/sql/Server.ts
+++ b/ts/sql/Server.ts
@@ -511,7 +511,6 @@ function openAndMigrateDatabase(
   let db: Database | undefined;

   // First, we try to open the database without any cipher changes
-  try {
     db = new SQL(filePath, {
       readonly,
     });
@@ -520,12 +519,6 @@ function openAndMigrateDatabase(
     migrateSchemaVersion(db);

     return db;
-  } catch (error) {
-    if (db) {
-      db.close();
-    }
-    logger.info('migrateDatabase: Migration without cipher change failed');
-  }

   // If that fails, we try to open the database with 3.x compatibility to extract the
   //   user_version (previously stored in schema_version, blown away by cipher_migrate).
diff --git a/app/main.ts b/app/main.ts
index e46822a85..e48b75549 100644
--- a/app/main.ts
+++ b/app/main.ts
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ function handleCommonWindowEvents(
   window.webContents.on(
     'preload-error',
     (_event: Electron.Event, preloadPath: string, error: Error) => {
-      getLogger().error(`Preload error in ${preloadPath}: `, error.message);
+      getLogger().error(`Preload error in ${preloadPath}: `, error.message, error.stack, error.code, error, Object.keys(error));
     }
   );