diff --git a/src/Utils/auth-utils.ts b/src/Utils/auth-utils.ts
index 204e16be..adabf548 100644
--- a/src/Utils/auth-utils.ts
+++ b/src/Utils/auth-utils.ts
@@ -341,7 +341,18 @@ export const addTransactionCapability = (
 
 						return result
 					} catch (error) {
-						logger.error({ error }, 'transaction failed, rolling back')
+						// SessionError is part of the normal Bad MAC recovery flow
+						// (retry receipt → sender resends as pkmsg → new session within ~1.3s).
+						// Logging it as ERROR creates 2 noise lines per recoverable Bad MAC cycle.
+						// Downgrade to debug for SessionError; keep ERROR for everything else.
+						// The error is still re-thrown — recovery behavior is unchanged.
+						const errName = (error as { name?: string })?.name
+						if (errName === 'SessionError') {
+							logger.debug({ error }, 'transaction failed (SessionError — recoverable via retry receipt)')
+						} else {
+							logger.error({ error }, 'transaction failed, rolling back')
+						}
+
 						throw error
 					}
 				})
diff --git a/src/Utils/decode-wa-message.ts b/src/Utils/decode-wa-message.ts
index a88e06be..171338f7 100644
--- a/src/Utils/decode-wa-message.ts
+++ b/src/Utils/decode-wa-message.ts
@@ -58,7 +58,11 @@ export const BAD_MAC_ERROR_TEXT = 'Bad MAC'
 export const DECRYPTION_RETRY_CONFIG = {
 	maxRetries: 3,
 	baseDelayMs: 100,
-	sessionRecordErrors: ['No session record', 'SessionError: No session record'],
+	// 'No matching sessions found' is the libsignal error when decryptWithSessions exhausts
+	// all stored sessions for a JID. Same recovery flow (retry receipt → pkmsg → new session)
+	// — categorise it as session-record so the caller logs DEBUG on retry, ERROR only when
+	// retries are exhausted (instead of dumping the full stack as an unknown error).
+	sessionRecordErrors: ['No session record', 'SessionError: No session record', 'No matching sessions found'],
 	corruptedSessionErrors: ['Bad MAC', 'MessageCounterError', MISSING_KEYS_ERROR_TEXT]
 }
 
@@ -421,9 +425,21 @@ export const decryptMessageNode = (
 						const isCorrupted = isCorruptedSessionError(originalError)
 						const isSessionRecord = isSessionRecordError(originalError)
 
+						// Slim error projection — keep name/message/type for diagnosis,
+						// drop `stack` which adds 4-5 lines of node_modules paths per log
+						// for known-recoverable libsignal errors. Full stack is still
+						// available via originalError if needed in custom handlers.
+						const slimErr = originalError
+							? {
+									name: (originalError as { name?: string }).name,
+									message: (originalError as { message?: string }).message,
+									type: (originalError as { type?: string }).type
+								}
+							: undefined
+
 						const errorContext = {
 							key: fullMessage.key,
-							err: originalError,
+							err: slimErr,
 							messageType: tag === 'plaintext' ? 'plaintext' : attrs.type,
 							sender,
 							author,
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index e997ddfd..745af59f 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,11 @@ console.info = function (...args: unknown[]) {
 
 // Track errors by type + JID to avoid duplicates (using Map for better performance)
 const _errorTimestamps = new Map<string, number>()
-const DEDUP_WINDOW_MS = 150
+// Dedup window for repeated decrypt-error console lines (Bad MAC / Counter / etc).
+// Was 150ms, but retry attempts of the SAME message are typically ~300-1000ms apart,
+// so the second attempt fell outside the window and double-printed. 5s comfortably
+// covers a retry pair without suppressing genuinely new errors for the same JID.
+const DEDUP_WINDOW_MS = 5000
 
 console.error = function (...args: unknown[]) {
 	if (args.length > 0 && typeof args[0] === 'string') {
@@ -70,7 +74,7 @@ console.error = function (...args: unknown[]) {
 				const lastTime = _errorTimestamps.get(dedupeKey)
 
 				if (lastTime && now - lastTime < DEDUP_WINDOW_MS) {
-					return // Skip duplicate within 150ms window
+					return // Skip duplicate within DEDUP_WINDOW_MS window
 				}
 
 				_errorTimestamps.set(dedupeKey, now)