diff --git a/src/api/files-trash.ts b/src/api/files-trash.ts
index 1c03f28b..9a4028ae 100644
--- a/src/api/files-trash.ts
+++ b/src/api/files-trash.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import {
 import { JMAPSetError } from './jmap-result';
 import { getUniqueName } from '../lib/filenode-name';
 import {
-  TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, findTrashFolder, restoreTarget, trashBatchName, trashSubtreeIds, trashedItems,
+  TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, findTrashFolder, restoreTarget, trashBatchName, trashPlaces, trashSubtreeIds, trashedItems,
   type TrashedItem,
 } from '../lib/files-trash';
 
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ export async function restoreFromTrash(items: TrashedItem[], drive?: TrashDrive)
   const nodes = await getAllFileNodes();
   assertDrive(drive);
   const trash = findTrashFolder(nodes);
-  const hidden = trashSubtreeIds(nodes, trash?.id);
+  const places = trashPlaces(nodes);
+  const { hidden } = places;
   // The items as the trash holds them now: their name and trash folder may
   // have changed on another device.
   const current = new Map(trashedItems(nodes, trash).map((item) => [item.node.id, item]));
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ export async function restoreFromTrash(items: TrashedItem[], drive?: TrashDrive)
   const updates: Record<string, Partial<Pick<FileNode, 'name' | 'parentId'>>> = {};
   const targets = new Map<string, string | null>();
   for (const item of pending) {
-    const target = restoreTarget(item, nodes);
+    const target = restoreTarget(item, places);
     const used = namesIn(target);
     const name = getUniqueName(item.node.name, used);
     used.add(name);
diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
index 2afbf50e..b49c86ba 100644
--- a/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
 import type { FileNode } from '../../api/types';
 import {
   findTrashFolder, parseTrashBatchName, restoreTarget, takesTrashName, trashBatchName, trashOriginPath,
-  trashSubtreeIds, trashedItems, withoutTrash,
+  trashPlaces, trashSubtreeIds, trashedItems, withoutTrash,
 } from '../files-trash';
 
 // The webmail's trash convention (its lib/files-trash.ts), read the same way here.
@@ -107,4 +107,23 @@ describe('trashOriginPath', () => {
     expect(trashOriginPath({ fromParentId: null }, drive)).toBe('/');
     expect(trashOriginPath({ fromParentId: 'old' }, drive)).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it('reads the listing once for all the rows of the trash, not once per row', () => {
+    // A listing that counts how often it is gone through.
+    let reads = 0;
+    const counted = new Proxy([...drive], {
+      get(target, key, receiver) {
+        if (key === Symbol.iterator || key === 'find' || key === 'filter' || key === 'map' || key === 'some') reads++;
+        return Reflect.get(target, key, receiver);
+      },
+    });
+    const places = trashPlaces(counted);
+    const before = reads;
+    const rows = trashedItems(drive);
+    const paths = rows.map((item) => trashOriginPath(item, places));
+    expect(paths).toEqual(['/Documents/Taxes', '/Documents/Taxes', '/', '/']);
+    expect(reads).toBe(before);
+    expect(rows.map((item) => restoreTarget(item, places))).toEqual(['tax', 'tax', null, null]);
+    expect(reads).toBe(before);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/lib/files-trash.ts b/src/lib/files-trash.ts
index 43046bbc..dad0ee40 100644
--- a/src/lib/files-trash.ts
+++ b/src/lib/files-trash.ts
@@ -55,14 +55,22 @@ export function parseTrashBatchName(name: string): { deletedAt: number; parentId
 export function trashSubtreeIds(nodes: FileNode[], trashId: string | undefined): Set<string> {
   const ids = new Set<string>();
   if (!trashId) return ids;
+  // One pass over the drive, then down the tree: a pass per level was slow
+  // for a deep trash in a large drive.
+  const children = new Map<string, string[]>();
+  for (const n of nodes) {
+    if (!n.parentId) continue;
+    const list = children.get(n.parentId);
+    if (list) list.push(n.id);
+    else children.set(n.parentId, [n.id]);
+  }
+  const queue = [trashId];
   ids.add(trashId);
-  let grew = true;
-  while (grew) {
-    grew = false;
-    for (const n of nodes) {
-      if (n.parentId && ids.has(n.parentId) && !ids.has(n.id)) {
-        ids.add(n.id);
-        grew = true;
+  for (let i = 0; i < queue.length; i++) {
+    for (const child of children.get(queue[i]) ?? []) {
+      if (!ids.has(child)) {
+        ids.add(child);
+        queue.push(child);
       }
     }
   }
@@ -102,26 +110,46 @@ export function trashedItems(nodes: FileNode[], trash: FileNode | undefined = fi
   return items;
 }
 
+/**
+ * What restoreTarget and trashOriginPath look up in a listing, worked out
+ * once for it: every row of the trash asks, and each time anew it cost a
+ * walk of the whole drive per row.
+ */
+export interface TrashPlaces {
+  byId: Map<string, FileNode>;
+  /** The trash and everything in it. */
+  hidden: Set<string>;
+}
+
+export function trashPlaces(nodes: FileNode[]): TrashPlaces {
+  return { byId: new Map(nodes.map((n) => [n.id, n])), hidden: trashSubtreeIds(nodes, findTrashFolder(nodes)?.id) };
+}
+
+function placesOf(from: FileNode[] | TrashPlaces): TrashPlaces {
+  return Array.isArray(from) ? trashPlaces(from) : from;
+}
+
 /**
  * Where a restored item goes: the folder it came from while that is still a
  * folder of the user's own drive outside the trash, the root otherwise.
  */
-export function restoreTarget(item: Pick<TrashedItem, 'fromParentId'>, nodes: FileNode[]): string | null {
-  const from = item.fromParentId;
-  if (from === null) return null;
-  const hidden = trashSubtreeIds(nodes, findTrashFolder(nodes)?.id);
-  const folder = nodes.find((n) => n.id === from);
-  return folder && isFolder(folder) && !folder.isShared && !hidden.has(folder.id) ? from : null;
+export function restoreTarget(item: Pick<TrashedItem, 'fromParentId'>, from: FileNode[] | TrashPlaces): string | null {
+  const parentId = item.fromParentId;
+  if (parentId === null) return null;
+  const { byId, hidden } = placesOf(from);
+  const folder = byId.get(parentId);
+  return folder && isFolder(folder) && !folder.isShared && !hidden.has(folder.id) ? parentId : null;
 }
 
 /**
  * The path of the folder a deleted item came from ("/Documents/Taxes", "/"
  * for the root); null when that folder is gone.
  */
-export function trashOriginPath(item: Pick<TrashedItem, 'fromParentId'>, nodes: FileNode[]): string | null {
+export function trashOriginPath(item: Pick<TrashedItem, 'fromParentId'>, from: FileNode[] | TrashPlaces): string | null {
   if (item.fromParentId === null) return '/';
-  if (restoreTarget(item, nodes) === null) return null;
-  const byId = new Map(nodes.map((n) => [n.id, n]));
+  const places = placesOf(from);
+  if (restoreTarget(item, places) === null) return null;
+  const { byId } = places;
   const names: string[] = [];
   const seen = new Set<string>();
   for (let cur = byId.get(item.fromParentId); cur && !seen.has(cur.id); cur = cur.parentId ? byId.get(cur.parentId) : undefined) {
diff --git a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
index 68df05bb..f3e764cd 100644
--- a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ import {
   type TrashMoveResult,
 } from '../api/files-trash';
 import {
-  TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, takesTrashName, trashOriginPath, trashedItems, withoutTrash, type TrashedItem,
+  TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, takesTrashName, trashOriginPath, trashPlaces, trashedItems, withoutTrash, type TrashedItem,
 } from '../lib/files-trash';
 import { toast } from '../stores/toast-store';
 import { jmapClient } from '../api/jmap-client';
@@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
   // but the trash's own, hidden files shown or not.
   const driveNodes = useMemo(() => withoutTrash(allNodes), [allNodes]);
   const trashItems = useMemo(() => trashedItems(allNodes), [allNodes]);
+  // Looked up by every row of the trash; worked out once per listing.
+  const trashPlacesNow = useMemo(() => trashPlaces(allNodes), [allNodes]);
   // Inside a folder another account shared with us, new folders and uploads
   // go to that account, and only where its rights allow them. Nothing is
   // added to the trash other than by deleting.
@@ -1076,7 +1078,7 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
 
   // Where a deleted item came from, on its row in the trash.
   const trashOrigin = (item: TrashedItem): string | null => {
-    const from = trashOriginPath(item, allNodes);
+    const from = trashOriginPath(item, trashPlacesNow);
     if (from === null) return null;
     return t('files.deleted_from', 'Deleted from {folder}', {
       folder: from === '/' ? t('files.my_files', 'My files') : from,