diff --git a/locales/rn/en.json b/locales/rn/en.json
index 0075aa38..6e824fe1 100644
--- a/locales/rn/en.json
+++ b/locales/rn/en.json
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@
     "move_to": "Move to…",
     "name_control_chars": "Names cannot contain control characters.",
     "name_too_long": "This name is too long for the server.",
+    "name_trash": "\".Trash\" is the name of the trash folder at the top of your files. Choose another name.",
     "open_error": "Could not open the file",
     "open_with": "Open with…",
     "preview_too_large": "This file is too large to preview.",
diff --git a/src/api/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts b/src/api/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
index 8229d90f..5dbaa249 100644
--- a/src/api/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
+++ b/src/api/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
@@ -277,6 +277,18 @@ describe('restoreFromTrash', () => {
     expect(byId('a2')).toMatchObject({ parentId: 'docs', name: 'a.txt' });
   });
 
+  it('gives a folder named .Trash that goes back to the root another name', async () => {
+    store.push({ id: 'x', parentId: 'docs', name: '.Trash', blobId: null }, { id: 'xin', parentId: 'x', name: 'in.txt', blobId: 'bi' });
+    let nodes = listed();
+    await moveToTrash(nodes, nodes.filter((n) => n.id === 'x'), 1730112000007);
+    // Docs goes too: the folder comes back to the root.
+    await moveToTrash(listed(), listed().filter((n) => n.id === 'docs'), 1730112000008);
+    nodes = listed();
+    await restoreFromTrash(trashedItems(nodes).filter((i) => i.node.id === 'x'));
+    expect(byId('x')).toMatchObject({ parentId: null, name: '.Trash (1)' });
+    expect(store.filter((n) => n.parentId === null && n.name === '.Trash')).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
   it('leaves an item alone that left the trash since the rows were listed', async () => {
     let nodes = listed();
     await moveToTrash(nodes, nodes.filter((n) => n.id === 'a'), 1730112000007);
diff --git a/src/api/files-trash.ts b/src/api/files-trash.ts
index 6d6d3114..1c03f28b 100644
--- a/src/api/files-trash.ts
+++ b/src/api/files-trash.ts
@@ -202,6 +202,8 @@ export async function restoreFromTrash(items: TrashedItem[], drive?: TrashDrive)
       names = new Set(nodes
         .filter((n) => (n.parentId ?? null) === parentId && !n.isShared && !hidden.has(n.id))
         .map((n) => n.name));
+      // Something named ".Trash" doesn't go back to the root under that name.
+      if (parentId === null) names.add(TRASH_FOLDER_NAME);
       taken.set(parentId, names);
     }
     return names;
diff --git a/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts b/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
index 5caa6351..2afbf50e 100644
--- a/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/__tests__/files-trash.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
 import type { FileNode } from '../../api/types';
 import {
-  findTrashFolder, parseTrashBatchName, restoreTarget, trashBatchName, trashOriginPath, trashSubtreeIds,
-  trashedItems, withoutTrash,
+  findTrashFolder, parseTrashBatchName, restoreTarget, takesTrashName, trashBatchName, trashOriginPath,
+  trashSubtreeIds, trashedItems, withoutTrash,
 } from '../files-trash';
 
 // The webmail's trash convention (its lib/files-trash.ts), read the same way here.
@@ -76,6 +76,18 @@ describe('withoutTrash', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('takesTrashName', () => {
+  it('refuses .Trash at the root of the own drive only', () => {
+    expect(takesTrashName('.Trash', null)).toBe(true);
+    expect(takesTrashName('.Trash', null, 'docs')).toBe(true);
+    expect(takesTrashName('.Trash', 'docs')).toBe(false);
+    expect(takesTrashName('.trash', null)).toBe(false);
+    expect(takesTrashName('.Trash (1)', null)).toBe(false);
+    // A node of a shared drive stays there.
+    expect(takesTrashName('.Trash', null, 'acc-2:x')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('restoreTarget', () => {
   it('puts an item back into its folder while that is still there', () => {
     expect(restoreTarget({ fromParentId: 'tax' }, drive)).toBe('tax');
diff --git a/src/lib/files-trash.ts b/src/lib/files-trash.ts
index a7e0e23e..43046bbc 100644
--- a/src/lib/files-trash.ts
+++ b/src/lib/files-trash.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ export function findTrashFolder(nodes: FileNode[]): FileNode | undefined {
     && isFolder(n));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether naming a node `name` in `parentId` (create, rename, move or upload)
+ * would put it in the trash's place, `.Trash` at the root of the user's own
+ * drive: a folder there becomes the trash, and a file there keeps the trash
+ * from being made. `nodeId` is the node renamed or moved, if any; one of a
+ * shared drive stays in that drive.
+ */
+export function takesTrashName(name: string, parentId: string | null, nodeId?: string): boolean {
+  return name === TRASH_FOLDER_NAME && parentId === null && !(nodeId?.includes(':'));
+}
+
 /** The name of the folder one delete's items go into. */
 export function trashBatchName(parentId: string | null, deletedAt: number = Date.now()): string {
   return `${deletedAt}~${parentId ?? ''}`;
diff --git a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
index bda92a6d..68df05bb 100644
--- a/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/screens/FilesScreen.tsx
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ import {
   TrashUnavailableError, emptyTrash, moveToTrash, purgeFromTrash, restoreFromTrash, undoMoveToTrash,
   type TrashMoveResult,
 } from '../api/files-trash';
-import { trashOriginPath, trashedItems, withoutTrash, type TrashedItem } from '../lib/files-trash';
+import {
+  TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, takesTrashName, trashOriginPath, trashedItems, withoutTrash, type TrashedItem,
+} from '../lib/files-trash';
 import { toast } from '../stores/toast-store';
 import { jmapClient } from '../api/jmap-client';
 import { downloadAttachment, shareAttachment } from '../lib/email-export';
@@ -178,6 +180,11 @@ function fileNameProblemText(problem: FileNameProblem, t: Translate): string {
   }
 }
 
+// Why ".Trash" can't go to the root (see takesTrashName).
+function trashNameText(t: Translate): string {
+  return t('files.name_trash', '".Trash" is the name of the trash folder at the top of your files. Choose another name.');
+}
+
 // The files an upload could not store, the first three by name, and what the
 // server said about the first one.
 function uploadFailureDetail(failed: Array<{ name: string; error: unknown }>, t: Translate): string {
@@ -604,12 +611,16 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
 
   // Explains a name the server would refuse before anything is sent: the
   // naming rules it publishes (Stalwart 0.16.6+) with 1.0's stricter ones on
-  // top, or at least the "/" every server refuses. True when the name can go.
-  const checkName = useCallback((name: string): boolean => {
+  // top, or at least the "/" every server refuses. `.Trash` is refused at the
+  // root, where it would become the trash (lib/files-trash). True when the
+  // name can go.
+  const checkName = useCallback((name: string, parentId: string | null, nodeId?: string): boolean => {
     const problem = fileNameProblem(name, getFileNameRules());
     const message = problem
       ? fileNameProblemText(problem, t)
-      : name.includes('/') ? t('files.invalid_name_slash', 'Names cannot contain "/".') : null;
+      : name.includes('/') ? t('files.invalid_name_slash', 'Names cannot contain "/".')
+      : takesTrashName(name, parentId, nodeId) ? trashNameText(t)
+      : null;
     if (message) Alert.alert(t('files.invalid_name', 'Invalid name'), message);
     return !message;
   }, [t]);
@@ -617,7 +628,7 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
   const submitNewFolder = useCallback(async () => {
     const name = newFolderName.trim();
     if (!name) return;
-    if (!checkName(name)) return;
+    if (!checkName(name, currentParentId)) return;
     setNewFolderOpen(false);
     setNewFolderName('');
     try {
@@ -635,7 +646,7 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
       setRenameTarget(null);
       return;
     }
-    if (!checkName(name)) return;
+    if (!checkName(name, renameTarget.parentId ?? null, renameTarget.id)) return;
     const target = renameTarget;
     setRenameTarget(null);
     setRenameValue('');
@@ -666,6 +677,10 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
   const performMove = useCallback(async (row: FileRow, destinationId: string | null) => {
     setMoveTarget(null);
     if ((row.parentId ?? null) === destinationId) return;
+    if (takesTrashName(row.name, destinationId, row.id)) {
+      Alert.alert(t('files.move_error', 'Failed to move'), trashNameText(t));
+      return;
+    }
     setBusyId(row.id);
     try {
       await moveFileNode(row.id, destinationId);
@@ -730,6 +745,8 @@ export default function FilesScreen() {
     uploadAbortRef.current = controller;
     const parentId = currentParentId;
     const siblings = allNodes.filter((n) => (n.parentId ?? null) === parentId).map((n) => n.name);
+    // A file picked as ".Trash" gets a number at the root, where the name is the trash's.
+    if (takesTrashName(TRASH_FOLDER_NAME, parentId)) siblings.push(TRASH_FOLDER_NAME);
     // A refused file no longer stops the rest; the ones that failed are
     // reported once the batch is done.
     const { failed } = await uploadFileBatch(accepted, parentId, siblings, {