diff --git a/commands/dorothy b/commands/dorothy
index ac4ccfce9..426c8b4f0 100755
--- a/commands/dorothy
+++ b/commands/dorothy
@@ -1905,6 +1905,13 @@ function dorothy_() (
 		echo-style --h1='Dorothy Tests'
 		source "$DOROTHY/sources/ripgrep.bash"
 
+		# run relevant debugs
+		__print_lines '' 'debug-terminal-stdin:'
+		debug-terminal-stdin || :
+		__print_lines '' 'debug-terminal-tty:'
+		debug-terminal-tty || :
+		__print_lines ''
+
 		# able to test on bash v3?
 		local bash has_macos_bash_v3='no'
 		bash="$(type -P bash)"
@@ -1916,7 +1923,7 @@ function dorothy_() (
 		local commands filepath filename failures=() scan_paths=(
 			"$DOROTHY/commands/"
 			"$DOROTHY/commands.beta/"
-			"$DOROTHY/commands.deprecated/"
+			# "$DOROTHY/commands.deprecated/" <-- don't run deprecated tests, as that will cause deprecated warnings, which cases dorothy-warnings test to fail
 		)
 		if test -d "$DOROTHY/user"; then
 			if test -d "$DOROTHY/user/commands"; then
diff --git a/commands/dorothy-warnings b/commands/dorothy-warnings
index 1842f7fef..3b8f5d512 100755
--- a/commands/dorothy-warnings
+++ b/commands/dorothy-warnings
@@ -64,27 +64,30 @@ function dorothy_warnings() (
 	# =====================================
 	# Act
 
+	local file="$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt"
+
 	function dorothy_warnings_check {
-		[[ -s "$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt" ]]
+		[[ -s $file ]]
 		return
 	}
 	function dorothy_warnings_clear {
-		: >"$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt"
+		: >"$file"
 	}
 	function dorothy_warnings_list {
 		echo-style --stderr \
 			--notice1='Dorothy has encountered warnings:' --newline \
-			--="$(echo-file -- "$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt")" --newline \
+			--="$(echo-file -- "$file")" --newline \
 			--notice1='For help with these warnings, see: ' --code-notice1='https://github.com/bevry/dorothy/issues/185' --newline \
 			--notice1='To clear these warnings, run: ' --code-notice1='dorothy-warnings clear'
 	}
 	function dorothy_warnings_warn {
-		if [[ -N "$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt" ]]; then
+		# -s and -N as if we have cleared the file, that is a new modification, so we need to check if it is actually non-empty AND modified
+		if [[ -s $file && -N $file ]]; then
 			dorothy_warnings_list
 		fi
 	}
 	function dorothy_warnings_add {
-		echo-style "${option_args[@]}" >>"$DOROTHY/state/warnings.txt"
+		echo-style "${option_args[@]}" >>"$file"
 	}
 
 	case "$action" in