diff --git a/packages/app-cli/app/app.js b/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
index baef949eb3..ba90091f1e 100644
--- a/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
+++ b/packages/app-cli/app/app.js
@@ -452,6 +452,8 @@ class Application extends BaseApplication {
 				type: 'FOLDER_SELECT',
 				id: Setting.value('activeFolderId'),
 			});
+
+			this.startRotatingLogMaintenance(Setting.value('profileDir'));
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/app.ts b/packages/app-desktop/app.ts
index e4f64579d2..0fc9950614 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/app.ts
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/app.ts
@@ -566,6 +566,8 @@ class Application extends BaseApplication {
 
 		await SpellCheckerService.instance().initialize(new SpellCheckerServiceDriverNative());
 
+		this.startRotatingLogMaintenance(Setting.value('profileDir'));
+
 		// await populateDatabase(reg.db(), {
 		// 	clearDatabase: true,
 		// 	folderCount: 1000,
diff --git a/packages/lib/BaseApplication.ts b/packages/lib/BaseApplication.ts
index da944f2fca..40d95a7e74 100644
--- a/packages/lib/BaseApplication.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/BaseApplication.ts
@@ -735,6 +735,20 @@ export default class BaseApplication {
 		return toSystemSlashes(output, 'linux');
 	}
 
+	protected startRotatingLogMaintenance(profileDir: string) {
+		this.rotatingLogs = new RotatingLogs(profileDir);
+		const processLogs = async () => {
+			try {
+				await this.rotatingLogs.cleanActiveLogFile();
+				await this.rotatingLogs.deleteNonActiveLogFiles();
+			} catch (error) {
+				appLogger.error(error);
+			}
+		};
+		shim.setTimeout(() => { void processLogs(); }, 60000);
+		shim.setInterval(() => { void processLogs(); }, 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+	}
+
 	public async start(argv: string[], options: StartOptions = null): Promise<any> {
 		options = {
 			keychainEnabled: true,
@@ -932,18 +946,6 @@ export default class BaseApplication {
 
 		await MigrationService.instance().run();
 
-		this.rotatingLogs = new RotatingLogs(profileDir);
-		const processLogs = async () => {
-			try {
-				await this.rotatingLogs.cleanActiveLogFile();
-				await this.rotatingLogs.deleteNonActiveLogFiles();
-			} catch (error) {
-				appLogger.error(error);
-			}
-		};
-		shim.setTimeout(() => { void processLogs(); }, 60000);
-		shim.setInterval(() => { void processLogs(); }, 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
-
 		return argv;
 	}
 }