diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Json/RecurrenceController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Json/RecurrenceController.php
index cfabc0ff56..d672b01311 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Json/RecurrenceController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Json/RecurrenceController.php
@@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ class RecurrenceController extends Controller
      */
     public function suggest(Request $request): JsonResponse
     {
+        $string = $request->get('date') ?? date('Y-m-d');
         $today       = new Carbon;
-        $date        = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $request->get('date'));
+        $date        = Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $string);
         $preSelected = (string)$request->get('pre_select');
         $result      = [];
         if ($date > $today || 'true' === (string)$request->get('past')) {
diff --git a/app/Support/Amount.php b/app/Support/Amount.php
index 9f9789aa14..797dce4779 100644
--- a/app/Support/Amount.php
+++ b/app/Support/Amount.php
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ class Amount
         $currencyPreference = Prefs::getForUser($user, 'currencyPreference', config('firefly.default_currency', 'EUR'));
 
         // at this point the currency preference could be encrypted, if coming from an old version.
+        Log::debug('Going to try to decrypt users currency preference.');
         $currencyCode = $this->tryDecrypt((string)$currencyPreference->data);
 
         // could still be json encoded:
@@ -288,7 +289,7 @@ class Amount
         try {
             $value = Crypt::decrypt($value);
         } catch (DecryptException $e) {
-            Log::debug(sprintf('Could not decrypt. %s', $e->getMessage()));
+            Log::debug(sprintf('Could not decrypt "%s". %s', $value, $e->getMessage()));
         }
 
         return $value;
diff --git a/app/Support/Http/Controllers/UserNavigation.php b/app/Support/Http/Controllers/UserNavigation.php
index cac0d91f92..b1ee2cd0e3 100644
--- a/app/Support/Http/Controllers/UserNavigation.php
+++ b/app/Support/Http/Controllers/UserNavigation.php
@@ -147,6 +147,9 @@ trait UserNavigation
             $url = app('url')->previous();
             session()->put($identifier, $url);
             Log::debug(sprintf('Will put previous URI in cache under key %s: %s', $identifier, $url));
+
+            return;
         }
+        Log::debug(sprintf('The users session contains errors somehow so we will not remember the URI!: %s', var_export($errors, true)));
     }
 }