diff --git a/packaging/winget/server/test.mjs b/packaging/winget/server/test.mjs
index a3c3f6f4..9854a258 100644
--- a/packaging/winget/server/test.mjs
+++ b/packaging/winget/server/test.mjs
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ const post = (p, body) =>
   check("manifest: installer has URL + sha256", !!inst?.InstallerUrl && /^[0-9A-F]{64}$/i.test(inst?.InstallerSha256 ?? ""));
   check("manifest: installer-level fields folded into the entry", inst?.InstallerType === "inno" && inst?.Scope === "machine");
   check("manifest: ProductCode preserved for correlation", !!inst?.ProductCode || !!v?.ProductCodes?.length);
+  // A Log switch is only useful if winget SUBSTITUTES the path. <LOGPATH> is the one token it
+  // replaces; anything else is passed through verbatim, and `|LOGPATH|` shipped in 0.20.0 — Inno
+  // then rejected `|` as a filename and aborted with "Error creating log file", in EVERY install
+  // mode, for any caller that requests a log (UniGetUI does by default). Reported from the field.
+  const log = inst?.InstallerSwitches?.Log;
+  check(
+    "manifest: Log switch uses winget's <LOGPATH> token, if present",
+    log === undefined || (log.includes("<LOGPATH>") && !/\|[A-Z]+\|/.test(log)),
+    `got ${JSON.stringify(log)}`,
+  );
 }
 {
   const res = await get("packageManifests/UNOM.PUNKTFUNKHOST");
diff --git a/packaging/winget/unom.PunktfunkHost.installer.yaml b/packaging/winget/unom.PunktfunkHost.installer.yaml
index 42fff801..16e771d8 100644
--- a/packaging/winget/unom.PunktfunkHost.installer.yaml
+++ b/packaging/winget/unom.PunktfunkHost.installer.yaml
@@ -35,7 +35,14 @@ InstallerSwitches:
   #             gamestream, allowpublicfw, startservice, trayicon
   Silent: /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-
   SilentWithProgress: /SILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-
-  Log: /LOG="|LOGPATH|"
+  # <LOGPATH> is winget's OWN token and the only spelling it substitutes (see the schema this file
+  # declares: "…<LOGPATH> token can be included in the switch value so that winget will replace the
+  # token with user provided path"). It was written |LOGPATH| — not a token, so winget passed the
+  # literal string through and Inno rejected it: `|` is not legal in a Windows filename, giving
+  # "Error creating log file: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."
+  # That aborted the install in EVERY mode, interactive included, for any caller that asks for a
+  # log — UniGetUI does so by default, which is how it was reported.
+  Log: /LOG="<LOGPATH>"
 
 # Inno writes its ARP entry under <AppId>_is1; this is what correlates an installed host with the
 # package for `winget list` / `winget upgrade`. Must track AppId in the .iss.