# Tk-desktop console silently ignoring errors **URL:** \ **Category:** Pipeline Integrations\ **Created:** [May 7, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-desktop-console-silently-ignoring-errors/8570 "2020-05-07T22:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 26
**Author:** ![philip.scadding](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/shotgunsoftware/user_avatar/community.shotgridsoftware.com/philip.scadding/32/30_2.png) [@philip.scadding](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/u/philip.scadding)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-desktop-console-silently-ignoring-errors/8570/26 "2020-05-21T10:07:09Z")
I’ve actually been looking at the way the Desktop engine handles the logging for a separate reason, and I think I now understand a bit more. When Desktop is loading the app for the project, that logging is never getting passed to SG Desktop main UI process, however it should as far as I can see, and I’ve tested, still get output to the `tk-desktop.log`. So that explains why you wouldn’t see it in the console, but I’m still not sure why you are not getting a message in the log file. I get an error like this: ```auto App /Users/.../tk-multi-pythonconsole failed to initialize. It will not be loaded: ... ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://community.shotgridsoftware.com/t/tk-desktop-console-silently-ignoring-errors/8570)._