diff --git a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
index 8bc1f040d..25067a838 100644
--- a/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
+++ b/packages/app-desktop/gui/NoteEditor/utils/resourceHandling.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import BaseModel from '@joplin/lib/BaseModel';
 import Resource from '@joplin/lib/models/Resource';
 const bridge = require('electron').remote.require('./bridge').default;
 import ResourceFetcher from '@joplin/lib/services/ResourceFetcher';
-import { reg } from '@joplin/lib/registry';
 import htmlUtils from '@joplin/lib/htmlUtils';
 import Logger from '@joplin/lib/Logger';
 const joplinRendererUtils = require('@joplin/renderer').utils;
@@ -14,6 +13,8 @@ const mimeUtils = require('@joplin/lib/mime-utils.js').mime;
 const md5 = require('md5');
 const path = require('path');
 
+const logger = Logger.create('resourceHandling');
+
 export async function handleResourceDownloadMode(noteBody: string) {
 	if (noteBody && Setting.value('sync.resourceDownloadMode') === 'auto') {
 		const resourceIds = await Note.linkedResourceIds(noteBody);
@@ -72,21 +73,21 @@ export async function commandAttachFileToBody(body: string, filePaths: string[]
 	for (let i = 0; i < filePaths.length; i++) {
 		const filePath = filePaths[i];
 		try {
-			reg.logger().info(`Attaching ${filePath}`);
+			logger.info(`Attaching ${filePath}`);
 			const newBody = await shim.attachFileToNoteBody(body, filePath, options.position, {
 				createFileURL: options.createFileURL,
 				resizeLargeImages: 'ask',
 			});
 
 			if (!newBody) {
-				reg.logger().info('File attachment was cancelled');
+				logger.info('File attachment was cancelled');
 				return null;
 			}
 
 			body = newBody;
-			reg.logger().info('File was attached.');
+			logger.info('File was attached.');
 		} catch (error) {
-			reg.logger().error(error);
+			logger.error(error);
 			bridge().showErrorMessageBox(error.message);
 		}
 	}
@@ -157,9 +158,8 @@ export async function processPastedHtml(html: string) {
 					await shim.fsDriver().remove(filePath);
 					mappedResources[imageSrc] = `file://${Resource.fullPath(createdResource)}`;
 				}
-			} catch (err) {
-				const logger = Logger.create('resourceHandling');
-				logger.warn(`Error creating a resource for ${imageSrc}.`, err);
+			} catch (error) {
+				logger.warn(`Error creating a resource for ${imageSrc}.`, error);
 				mappedResources[imageSrc] = imageSrc;
 			}
 		}