diff --git a/src/maestral/logging.py b/src/maestral/logging.py
index 3765548c2..1fb908fc6 100644
--- a/src/maestral/logging.py
+++ b/src/maestral/logging.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 import logging
 from collections import deque
+import concurrent.futures
 from concurrent.futures import Future
 from typing import Deque, Optional, List
 
@@ -113,7 +114,7 @@ def wait_for_emit(self, timeout: Optional[float]) -> bool:
         """
         try:
             self._emit_future.result(timeout=timeout)
-        except TimeoutError:
+        except concurrent.futures.TimeoutError:
             return False
 
         self._emit_future = Future()  # reset future