diff --git a/src/api/__tests__/files.test.ts b/src/api/__tests__/files.test.ts
index d49bac33..5bcad0d8 100644
--- a/src/api/__tests__/files.test.ts
+++ b/src/api/__tests__/files.test.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import { CAPABILITIES } from '../types';
 import {
   accountSupportsFiles,
   copyFileNode,
+  copyFileTree,
   createFolder,
   deleteFileNodes,
   fileNodeKind,
@@ -665,6 +666,52 @@ describe('copyFileNode', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('copyFileTree', () => {
+  const tree = [
+    { id: 'src', name: 'Docs', type: '', blobId: null, parentId: null },
+    { id: 'sub', name: 'Old', type: '', blobId: null, parentId: 'src' },
+    { id: 'f1', name: 'a.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b1', parentId: 'src' },
+    { id: 'f2', name: 'b.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b2', parentId: 'sub' },
+    { id: 'other', name: 'c.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b3', parentId: null },
+  ];
+  /** Answers each FileNode/set create with a new id, or fails the call for `failOn`. */
+  function serve(failOn?: string) {
+    let n = 0;
+    const creates: Record<string, unknown>[] = [];
+    const destroys: string[][] = [];
+    mockRequest.mockImplementation(async (calls: [string, Record<string, any>, string][]) => {
+      const [, args] = calls[0];
+      if (args.destroy) {
+        destroys.push(args.destroy);
+        return { methodResponses: [['FileNode/set', { destroyed: args.destroy }, '0']] };
+      }
+      const [key, props] = Object.entries(args.create as Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>)[0];
+      if (props.name === failOn) return { methodResponses: [['FileNode/set', { notCreated: { [key]: { type: 'forbidden' } } }, '0']] };
+      creates.push(props);
+      return { methodResponses: [['FileNode/set', { created: { [key]: { id: `new-${++n}` } } }, '0']] };
+    });
+    return { creates, destroys };
+  }
+
+  it('makes the folder again with its folders and files, the files on the same blobs', async () => {
+    const { creates } = serve();
+    const copy = await copyFileTree(tree[0], tree, null, 'Docs (1)');
+    expect(copy.id).toBe('new-1');
+    expect(creates).toEqual([
+      { name: 'Docs (1)' },
+      { name: 'Old', parentId: 'new-1' },
+      { name: 'b.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b2', parentId: 'new-2' },
+      { name: 'a.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b1', parentId: 'new-1' },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('takes a half-made copy back, the deepest level first', async () => {
+    const { destroys } = serve('a.txt');
+    await expect(copyFileTree(tree[0], tree, null, 'Docs (1)')).rejects.toThrow();
+    expect(destroys).toEqual([['new-3'], ['new-2'], ['new-1']]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('fileNodeKind', () => {
   it('takes nodeType as Stalwart 0.16.6+ returns it', () => {
     expect(fileNodeKind({ nodeType: 'file', blobId: 'b1' })).toBe('file');
diff --git a/src/api/__tests__/live-stalwart-files.test.ts b/src/api/__tests__/live-stalwart-files.test.ts
index 7c4d7d4e..3a9a2c41 100644
--- a/src/api/__tests__/live-stalwart-files.test.ts
+++ b/src/api/__tests__/live-stalwart-files.test.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import { CAPABILITIES } from '../types';
 import type { FileNode } from '../types';
 import {
   copyFileNode,
+  copyFileTree,
   createFolder,
   deleteFileNodes,
   destroyEmptyFolders,
@@ -161,6 +162,30 @@ live('live Stalwart files', () => {
     expect(all.filter((n) => [copy.id, box.id, file.id, inner.id].includes(n.id))).toEqual([]);
   }, 90_000);
 
+  it('copies a folder with the folders and files in it', async () => {
+    const source = await createFolder('Copy me', scratch);
+    const sub = await createFolder('Inside', source.id);
+    await uploadFileBatch([pick('top.txt', 'top')], source.id, []);
+    await uploadFileBatch([pick('deep.txt', 'deeper')], sub.id, []);
+    const all = await nodes();
+
+    const copy = await copyFileTree(all.find((n) => n.id === source.id)!, all, scratch, 'Copy me (1)');
+    const after = await nodes();
+    const copied = after.find((n) => n.id === copy.id)!;
+    expect(copied).toMatchObject({ name: 'Copy me (1)', parentId: scratch });
+    expect(fileNodeKind(copied)).toBe('directory');
+    const inCopy = after.filter((n) => n.parentId === copy.id);
+    expect(inCopy.map((n) => n.name).sort()).toEqual(['Inside', 'top.txt']);
+    const copiedSub = inCopy.find((n) => n.name === 'Inside')!;
+    expect(fileNodeKind(copiedSub)).toBe('directory');
+    const deep = after.find((n) => n.parentId === copiedSub.id)!;
+    expect(deep).toMatchObject({ name: 'deep.txt', size: 6 });
+    const res = await fetch(getFileNodeDownloadUrl(deep), { headers: { Authorization: client.authHeader } });
+    expect(await res.text()).toBe('deeper');
+    // The source is untouched.
+    expect(after.filter((n) => n.parentId === source.id).map((n) => n.name).sort()).toEqual(['Inside', 'top.txt']);
+  }, 90_000);
+
   it('moves a node to the drive root and back', async () => {
     const { uploaded } = await uploadFileBatch([pick('root-trip.txt', 'x')], scratch, []);
     const id = uploaded[0].id;
diff --git a/src/api/files.ts b/src/api/files.ts
index 8907d2e2..64c9c02a 100644
--- a/src/api/files.ts
+++ b/src/api/files.ts
@@ -723,6 +723,66 @@ export async function copyFileNode(
   return createFileNodeFromBlob(newName, node.blobId, node.type, parentId);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Copy a file, or a folder with everything in it, into `parentId` (webmail
+ * copyFileNode). A folder node carries no content, so the subtree is made
+ * again level by level from `tree`, the listing the ids of `node` and
+ * `parentId` come from; the files in it point at the same blobs. A copy that
+ * fails part-way is taken back, the deepest level first, without
+ * onDestroyRemoveChildren: whatever someone else put into its folders
+ * meanwhile stays.
+ */
+export async function copyFileTree(
+  node: FileNode,
+  tree: FileNode[],
+  parentId: string | null,
+  newName: string = node.name,
+): Promise<FileNode> {
+  const kind = fileNodeKind(node);
+  if (kind === 'symlink') throw new Error('Symbolic links cannot be copied');
+  if (kind === 'file') return copyFileNode(node, parentId, newName);
+
+  const childrenOf = new Map<string, FileNode[]>();
+  for (const entry of tree) {
+    if (entry.parentId == null) continue;
+    const siblings = childrenOf.get(entry.parentId);
+    if (siblings) siblings.push(entry);
+    else childrenOf.set(entry.parentId, [entry]);
+  }
+  // The ids this copy creates, by level below the copy (0 is the copy itself).
+  const made: string[][] = [];
+  const seen = new Set<string>([node.id]);
+  const create = async (source: FileNode, name: string, parent: string | null, level: number): Promise<FileNode> => {
+    const created = fileNodeKind(source) === 'directory'
+      ? await createFolder(name, parent)
+      : await createFileNodeFromBlob(name, source.blobId!, source.type, parent);
+    (made[level] ??= []).push(created.id);
+    return created;
+  };
+  const copyChildren = async (folderId: string, copyId: string, level: number): Promise<void> => {
+    for (const child of childrenOf.get(folderId) ?? []) {
+      // Symlinks have nothing to copy; a copy inside the source is not copied again.
+      if (seen.has(child.id) || fileNodeKind(child) === 'symlink') continue;
+      if (fileNodeKind(child) === 'file' && !child.blobId) continue;
+      seen.add(child.id);
+      const created = await create(child, child.name, copyId, level);
+      if (fileNodeKind(child) === 'directory') await copyChildren(child.id, created.id, level + 1);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const root = await create(node, newName, parentId, 0);
+  seen.add(root.id);
+  try {
+    await copyChildren(node.id, root.id, 1);
+  } catch (err) {
+    for (let level = made.length - 1; level >= 0; level--) {
+      await destroyEmptyFolders(made[level] ?? []).catch(() => []);
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+  return root;
+}
+
 // ── Sharing (RFC 9670) ────────────────────────────────────
 
 // Add, update, or remove a principal's rights on an owned FileNode (file or
diff --git a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
index f3e764cd..1be3045b 100644
--- a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function loadDocumentPicker(): DocumentPickerModule | null {
 }
 
 import {
-  copyFileNode, createFolder, deleteFileNodes, getAllFileNodesAcrossAccounts,
+  copyFileTree, createFolder, deleteFileNodes, getAllFileNodesAcrossAccounts,
   getFileNameRules, getFileNodeDownloadUrl, getMaxSizeUpload, isFolder,
   isSymlink, listFolder, moveFileNode, renameFileNode, supportsSharing, uploadFileBatch,
 } from '../api/files';
@@ -661,13 +661,14 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
   }, [renameTarget, renameValue, loadFiles, checkName, t]);
 
   const duplicateFile = useCallback(async (row: FileRow) => {
-    if (isFolder(row) || isSymlink(row) || !fileNodeAccess(row, allNodes).duplicate) return;
+    // A folder is copied with everything in it (webmail copyFileNode).
+    if (isSymlink(row) || !fileNodeAccess(row, allNodes).duplicate) return;
     setBusyId(row.id);
     try {
       const siblings = new Set(
         allNodes.filter((n) => (n.parentId ?? null) === (row.parentId ?? null)).map((n) => n.name),
       );
-      await copyFileNode(row, row.parentId ?? null, getUniqueName(row.name, siblings));
+      await copyFileTree(row, allNodes, row.parentId ?? null, getUniqueName(row.name, siblings));
       await loadFiles('refresh');
     } catch (e) {
       Alert.alert(t('files.duplicate_error', 'Failed to duplicate'), fileErrorMessage(e, t));
@@ -1641,7 +1642,7 @@ function ActionsSheet({
                   <Text style={styles.actionLabel}>{t('files.move_to', 'Move to…')}</Text>
                 </Pressable>
               ) : null}
-              {access.duplicate && isFile ? (
+              {access.duplicate && !isSymlink(target) ? (
                 <Pressable style={styles.action} onPress={() => onDuplicate(target)}>
                   <Copy size={18} color={c.text} />
                   <Text style={styles.actionLabel}>{t('files.duplicate', 'Duplicate')}</Text>