diff --git a/changelog.d/2379-clear-enoent-quiet.fixed.md b/changelog.d/2379-clear-enoent-quiet.fixed.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f740206
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/2379-clear-enoent-quiet.fixed.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Settings → Feedback's **Clear** no longer writes `[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated: ENOENT` when there is no log file on disk yet: a home whose `logs/` folder does not exist has nothing to empty, so the Clear stays silent on stderr and the window's `Cleared the error log.` is what happened. A leaf that is there and refuses the truncate (`0444`, `EACCES`) still names the code on exactly one line, and the answer for it is still `leaf: 'kept'` ([#2379](https://github.com/ThinkFlowLab/FlyBot/issues/2379)).
diff --git a/core/src/host/diagnostics.js b/core/src/host/diagnostics.js
index 58794dfd..d70211cc 100644
--- a/core/src/host/diagnostics.js
+++ b/core/src/host/diagnostics.js
@@ -308,11 +308,17 @@ export function install(rt) {
         await writeFile(logPath, '', 'utf8')
         result.leaf = 'truncated'
       } catch (error) {
-        result.leaf = error?.code === 'ENOENT' ? 'absent' : 'kept'
-        // The answer alone is not enough: it reaches the window, and the host log said nothing about
-        // a leaf left full. `append` names this same class of failure on one line, so clear does too;
-        // the line carries the code and never the folder, and the throw stays so the chain ends here.
-        console.error('[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated:', error?.code ?? clean(error?.message ?? String(error)))
+        // `ENOENT` is not a refusal: there was no leaf on disk to empty, so there was nothing to
+        // truncate — the same answer the `!toFile` host above gives, and it says so on no line at
+        // all. Every other code is a leaf we wanted to empty and could not: the window hears
+        // `kept`, and the host log names the code on exactly one line (#2364), never the folder.
+        // The throw stays so the chain ends here either way.
+        if (error?.code === 'ENOENT') {
+          result.leaf = 'absent'
+        } else {
+          result.leaf = 'kept'
+          console.error('[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated:', error?.code ?? clean(error?.message ?? String(error)))
+        }
         throw error
       }
       // Rotation moves the full log to `<logPath>.1`, and the truncate alone left every rotated line
diff --git a/core/test/diagnostics.test.js b/core/test/diagnostics.test.js
index d688c652..795c62cc 100644
--- a/core/test/diagnostics.test.js
+++ b/core/test/diagnostics.test.js
@@ -954,3 +954,48 @@ test('#2364: a clear that cannot truncate leaves the readable surface alone', as
   assert.deepEqual(await rt.diagnostics.entries(), [], 'a real clear lists nothing afterwards')
   assert.equal(await rt.diagnostics.logText(), '', 'a real clear leaves nothing to download')
 })
+
+// A Clear on a home with no log folder used to print "not truncated" for a write that failed
+// with ENOENT (#2379). There is nothing on disk to empty, so that line was a false alarm: the
+// window answers "Cleared the error log." for `leaf: 'absent'`, and the stderr line reached
+// support bundles where it could not be told apart from a leaf that really was refused.
+test('a clear with no log on disk stays quiet', async (t) => {
+  const home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ds-bot-diag-'))
+  const rt = host(home)
+  t.after(async () => { await rt.dispose(); rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5 }) })
+
+  const stderr = []
+  const quiet = t.mock.method(console, 'error', (...args) => stderr.push(args.join(' ')))
+  const result = await rt.diagnostics.clear()
+  quiet.mock.restore()
+
+  assert.deepEqual(result, { leaf: 'absent', rotated: 'none' }, 'nothing was there, so nothing was kept')
+  assert.deepEqual(stderr, [], 'a Clear with nothing to empty does not claim it could not truncate')
+  assert.equal(existsSync(join(home, 'logs')), false, 'the truncate did not create the folder')
+})
+
+// The other half of the same contract, and #2364 kept whole: a leaf that is there and
+// refuses the truncate still names the code on exactly one line, and never the folder (#2379).
+test('a clear that cannot truncate the leaf still says so on one line', async (t) => {
+  if (process.getuid?.() === 0) {
+    t.skip('root truncates a leaf without its write bit')
+    return
+  }
+  const home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ds-bot-diag-'))
+  t.after(() => rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5 }))
+  mkdirSync(join(home, 'logs'), { recursive: true })
+  const logPath = join(home, 'logs', 'diagnostics.jsonl')
+  const old = 'OLD LINE\n'.repeat(4)
+  writeFileSync(logPath, old)
+  chmodSync(logPath, 0o444)
+  const rt = host(home)
+
+  const stderr = []
+  const quiet = t.mock.method(console, 'error', (...args) => stderr.push(args.join(' ')))
+  const result = await rt.diagnostics.clear()
+  quiet.mock.restore()
+
+  assert.deepEqual(result, { leaf: 'kept', rotated: 'none' }, 'the leaf says it was left alone')
+  assert.deepEqual(stderr, ['[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated: EACCES'], 'one line, the code and never the folder')
+  assert.equal(readFileSync(logPath, 'utf8'), old, 'the lines the answer did not claim to clear are still there')
+})
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch b/patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch
index e7bb9d5f..c7a6e2c4 100644
--- a/patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch
@@ -5126,7 +5126,7 @@ diff --git a/src/host/diagnostics.js b/src/host/diagnostics.js
      const list = await entries()
      const client = sanitizeClient(body.client)
      const clientEntries = sanitizeClientEntries(body.clientErrors)
-@@ -232,17 +232,72 @@ export function install(rt) {
+@@ -232,17 +232,78 @@ export function install(rt) {
    }
  
    async function logText() {
@@ -5165,11 +5165,17 @@ diff --git a/src/host/diagnostics.js b/src/host/diagnostics.js
 +        await writeFile(logPath, '', 'utf8')
 +        result.leaf = 'truncated'
 +      } catch (error) {
-+        result.leaf = error?.code === 'ENOENT' ? 'absent' : 'kept'
-+        // The answer alone is not enough: it reaches the window, and the host log said nothing about
-+        // a leaf left full. `append` names this same class of failure on one line, so clear does too;
-+        // the line carries the code and never the folder, and the throw stays so the chain ends here.
-+        console.error('[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated:', error?.code ?? clean(error?.message ?? String(error)))
++        // `ENOENT` is not a refusal: there was no leaf on disk to empty, so there was nothing to
++        // truncate — the same answer the `!toFile` host above gives, and it says so on no line at
++        // all. Every other code is a leaf we wanted to empty and could not: the window hears
++        // `kept`, and the host log names the code on exactly one line (#2364), never the folder.
++        // The throw stays so the chain ends here either way.
++        if (error?.code === 'ENOENT') {
++          result.leaf = 'absent'
++        } else {
++          result.leaf = 'kept'
++          console.error('[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated:', error?.code ?? clean(error?.message ?? String(error)))
++        }
 +        throw error
 +      }
 +      // Rotation moves the full log to `<logPath>.1`, and the truncate alone left every rotated line
diff --git a/patches/ds-bot/0007-version-and-tooling.patch b/patches/ds-bot/0007-version-and-tooling.patch
index 4b08f792..5789f221 100644
--- a/patches/ds-bot/0007-version-and-tooling.patch
+++ b/patches/ds-bot/0007-version-and-tooling.patch
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ diff --git a/test/diagnostics.test.js b/test/diagnostics.test.js
    const short = issueUrl(base, { what: 'Writer failed\nin the group', diagnostics: '| DS Bot | 0.1.0 |' })
    assert.equal(short.inline, true)
    const params = new URL(short.url).searchParams
-@@ -253,3 +253,401 @@ test('a browser error is noted once, repeats are counted, and clear empties the
+@@ -253,3 +253,446 @@ test('a browser error is noted once, repeats are counted, and clear empties the
    clearClientErrors()
    assert.equal(clientErrors().length, 0)
  })
@@ -1600,3 +1600,48 @@ diff --git a/test/diagnostics.test.js b/test/diagnostics.test.js
 +  assert.deepEqual(await rt.diagnostics.entries(), [], 'a real clear lists nothing afterwards')
 +  assert.equal(await rt.diagnostics.logText(), '', 'a real clear leaves nothing to download')
 +})
++
++// A Clear on a home with no log folder used to print "not truncated" for a write that failed
++// with ENOENT (#2379). There is nothing on disk to empty, so that line was a false alarm: the
++// window answers "Cleared the error log." for `leaf: 'absent'`, and the stderr line reached
++// support bundles where it could not be told apart from a leaf that really was refused.
++test('a clear with no log on disk stays quiet', async (t) => {
++  const home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ds-bot-diag-'))
++  const rt = host(home)
++  t.after(async () => { await rt.dispose(); rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5 }) })
++
++  const stderr = []
++  const quiet = t.mock.method(console, 'error', (...args) => stderr.push(args.join(' ')))
++  const result = await rt.diagnostics.clear()
++  quiet.mock.restore()
++
++  assert.deepEqual(result, { leaf: 'absent', rotated: 'none' }, 'nothing was there, so nothing was kept')
++  assert.deepEqual(stderr, [], 'a Clear with nothing to empty does not claim it could not truncate')
++  assert.equal(existsSync(join(home, 'logs')), false, 'the truncate did not create the folder')
++})
++
++// The other half of the same contract, and #2364 kept whole: a leaf that is there and
++// refuses the truncate still names the code on exactly one line, and never the folder (#2379).
++test('a clear that cannot truncate the leaf still says so on one line', async (t) => {
++  if (process.getuid?.() === 0) {
++    t.skip('root truncates a leaf without its write bit')
++    return
++  }
++  const home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'ds-bot-diag-'))
++  t.after(() => rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true, maxRetries: 5 }))
++  mkdirSync(join(home, 'logs'), { recursive: true })
++  const logPath = join(home, 'logs', 'diagnostics.jsonl')
++  const old = 'OLD LINE\n'.repeat(4)
++  writeFileSync(logPath, old)
++  chmodSync(logPath, 0o444)
++  const rt = host(home)
++
++  const stderr = []
++  const quiet = t.mock.method(console, 'error', (...args) => stderr.push(args.join(' ')))
++  const result = await rt.diagnostics.clear()
++  quiet.mock.restore()
++
++  assert.deepEqual(result, { leaf: 'kept', rotated: 'none' }, 'the leaf says it was left alone')
++  assert.deepEqual(stderr, ['[ds-bot] diagnostics log not truncated: EACCES'], 'one line, the code and never the folder')
++  assert.equal(readFileSync(logPath, 'utf8'), old, 'the lines the answer did not claim to clear are still there')
++})