diff --git a/lib/global-search/__tests__/providers.test.ts b/lib/global-search/__tests__/providers.test.ts
index c24e7dcfa..111bf736c 100644
--- a/lib/global-search/__tests__/providers.test.ts
+++ b/lib/global-search/__tests__/providers.test.ts
@@ -445,4 +445,21 @@ describe('files provider', () => {
     expect(hits.map((h) => h.id)).toEqual(['d']);
     expect(hits[0]).toMatchObject({ isFolder: true });
   });
+
+  // The Files trash is a folder the app keeps (.Trash, one folder per
+  // delete): neither it nor what was deleted is a hit.
+  it('leaves the Files trash and everything in it out of the hits', async () => {
+    const listing = [
+      { id: 'zebra-live', parentId: null, name: 'zebra.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b1', size: 1, created: '', modified: '' },
+      { id: 'trash', parentId: null, name: '.Trash', type: 'd', blobId: null, size: 0, created: '', modified: '' },
+      { id: 'batch', parentId: 'trash', name: '1730112000000~zebra', type: 'd', blobId: null, size: 0, created: '', modified: '' },
+      { id: 'zebra-gone', parentId: 'batch', name: 'zebra old.txt', type: 'text/plain', blobId: 'b2', size: 1, created: '', modified: '' },
+    ];
+    invalidateFileSearchCache();
+    const acc = account('login-t', { listAllFileNodesAcrossAccounts: vi.fn(async () => listing) });
+    const { hits } = await filesProvider.remote(parseSearchQuery('zebra'), acc, { limit: 10, signal });
+    expect(hits.map((h) => h.id)).toEqual(['zebra-live']);
+    const trash = await filesProvider.remote(parseSearchQuery('trash'), acc, { limit: 10, signal });
+    expect(trash.hits).toEqual([]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/lib/global-search/providers/files.ts b/lib/global-search/providers/files.ts
index 480345346..7388e666c 100644
--- a/lib/global-search/providers/files.ts
+++ b/lib/global-search/providers/files.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { matchesTerms, type ParsedQuery } from '@/lib/global-search/query-parser
 import type { FileHit, SearchAccount, SearchProvider } from '@/lib/global-search/types';
 import type { FileNode } from '@/lib/jmap/types';
 import { fileNodeKind } from '@/lib/jmap/filenode-kind';
+import { findTrashFolder, trashSubtreeIds } from '@/lib/files-trash';
 import { useFileStore } from '@/stores/file-store';
 
 /**
@@ -93,9 +94,11 @@ export function rawFileNodeId(node: FileNode): string {
 
 function filterNodes(parsed: ParsedQuery, nodes: FileNode[], account: SearchAccount, limit: number, source: 'local' | 'remote'): FileHit[] {
   const hits: FileHit[] = [];
+  // The Files trash (.Trash, one folder per delete, what was deleted) is no hit.
+  const trashed = trashSubtreeIds(nodes, findTrashFolder(nodes)?.id);
   for (const node of nodes) {
     // The owner's folders above a shared node only feed the path below.
-    if (node.discoverableOnly) continue;
+    if (node.discoverableOnly || trashed.has(node.id)) continue;
     const kind = fileNodeKind(node);
     // A symlink has nothing a hit could open.
     if (kind === 'symlink') continue;