diff --git a/backend/.sqlx/query-07a759bde2efada8e71a29d059b5ef5575a908d8410418ef7fff1795bc0ec1f8.json b/backend/.sqlx/query-e34f4d6a151cc791960c61197a4b00ea9db2f6ee47dc154faefe4c06c41cf1cf.json
similarity index 51%
rename from backend/.sqlx/query-07a759bde2efada8e71a29d059b5ef5575a908d8410418ef7fff1795bc0ec1f8.json
rename to backend/.sqlx/query-e34f4d6a151cc791960c61197a4b00ea9db2f6ee47dc154faefe4c06c41cf1cf.json
index 0573b646b6..dcacf92573 100644
--- a/backend/.sqlx/query-07a759bde2efada8e71a29d059b5ef5575a908d8410418ef7fff1795bc0ec1f8.json
+++ b/backend/.sqlx/query-e34f4d6a151cc791960c61197a4b00ea9db2f6ee47dc154faefe4c06c41cf1cf.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "db_name": "PostgreSQL",
-  "query": "SELECT d.email IS NULL as \"legacy!\", COALESCE(u.username, p.username) as username\n           FROM draft d\n           LEFT JOIN usr u ON u.workspace_id = d.workspace_id AND u.email = d.email\n           LEFT JOIN password p ON p.email = d.email AND p.super_admin = true\n           WHERE d.workspace_id = $1 AND d.path = $2 AND d.typ::text = ANY($3::text[])\n           ORDER BY 2",
+  "query": "SELECT d.email IS NULL as \"legacy!\", COALESCE(u.username, p.username) as username\n           FROM draft d\n           LEFT JOIN usr u ON u.workspace_id = d.workspace_id AND u.email = d.email\n           LEFT JOIN password p ON p.email = d.email AND p.super_admin = true\n           WHERE d.workspace_id = $1 AND d.path = $2 AND d.typ::text = ANY($3::text[])\n             -- A row of the consuming owner's that a move brought here from the very path\n             -- being renamed is the draft this deploy carries, not an item in its way. Any\n             -- other row of theirs is a second item and still collides.\n             AND ($4::text IS NULL OR d.email IS DISTINCT FROM $4 OR NOT EXISTS (\n                 SELECT 1 FROM draft_move m\n                 WHERE m.workspace_id = $1 AND m.typ::text = ANY($3::text[])\n                   AND m.old_path = $5 AND m.new_path = $2\n                   AND (m.email IS NULL OR m.email = $4)\n             ))\n           ORDER BY 2",
   "describe": {
     "columns": [
       {
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
       "Left": [
         "Text",
         "Text",
-        "TextArray"
+        "TextArray",
+        "Text",
+        "Text"
       ]
     },
     "nullable": [
@@ -26,5 +28,5 @@
       null
     ]
   },
-  "hash": "07a759bde2efada8e71a29d059b5ef5575a908d8410418ef7fff1795bc0ec1f8"
+  "hash": "e34f4d6a151cc791960c61197a4b00ea9db2f6ee47dc154faefe4c06c41cf1cf"
 }
diff --git a/backend/tests/drafts_save_follows_move.rs b/backend/tests/drafts_save_follows_move.rs
index b4697445c1..c87ad9adf7 100644
--- a/backend/tests/drafts_save_follows_move.rs
+++ b/backend/tests/drafts_save_follows_move.rs
@@ -480,3 +480,53 @@ async fn test_a_legacy_discard_follows_a_rename(db: Pool<Postgres>) -> anyhow::R
     );
     Ok(())
 }
+
+/// Deploying a draft that a move carried off an archived script: its parent is still the
+/// version at the old path, so the deploy renames from there and carries what is left over
+/// — onto the very draft being deployed. That row is this deploy's own, not an item in its
+/// way, or the deploy is refused and every retry refuses again.
+#[sqlx::test(fixtures("base", "drafts_save_follows_move"))]
+async fn test_a_moved_draft_deploys_at_its_new_path(db: Pool<Postgres>) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    initialize_tracing().await;
+    let server = ApiServer::start(db.clone()).await?;
+    let port = server.addr.port();
+
+    sqlx::query("UPDATE script SET archived = true WHERE path = 'u/test-user/follow_a'")
+        .execute(&db)
+        .await?;
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(format!(
+            "http://localhost:{port}/api/w/test-workspace/drafts/move/script/u/test-user/follow_a"
+        ))
+        .header("Authorization", "Bearer SECRET_TOKEN")
+        .json(&json!({ "new_path": "u/test-user/follow_b" }))
+        .send()
+        .await?;
+    assert!(
+        resp.status().is_success(),
+        "move failed: {}",
+        resp.text().await?
+    );
+
+    // Deploy it where it now lives, still parented on the archived version it forked from.
+    let resp = reqwest::Client::new()
+        .post(format!(
+            "http://localhost:{port}/api/w/test-workspace/scripts/create"
+        ))
+        .header("Authorization", "Bearer SECRET_TOKEN")
+        .json(&json!({
+            "path": "u/test-user/follow_b",
+            "parent_hash": HEAD_HASH,
+            "summary": "A",
+            "description": "",
+            "content": "export function main() { return 2 }",
+            "language": "deno",
+            "schema": {}
+        }))
+        .send()
+        .await?;
+    let status = resp.status();
+    let body = resp.text().await?;
+    assert_eq!(status, 201, "the moved draft could not be deployed: {body}");
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api-flows/src/flows.rs b/backend/windmill-api-flows/src/flows.rs
index 92d291344b..8d9b222199 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api-flows/src/flows.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api-flows/src/flows.rs
@@ -1426,6 +1426,7 @@ async fn update_flow(
             &[UserDraftItemKind::Flow],
             flow_path,
             &nf.path,
+            (!nf.skip_draft_deletion.unwrap_or(false)).then_some(authed.email.as_str()),
         )
         .await?;
     }
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs b/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
index 1eebfc1389..f0e11fe964 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api-scripts/src/scripts.rs
@@ -2322,6 +2322,7 @@ async fn create_script_internal<'c>(
                 &[UserDraftItemKind::Script],
                 p_path,
                 &ns.path,
+                (!skip_draft_deletion).then_some(authed.email.as_str()),
             )
             .await?;
         }
diff --git a/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs b/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
index 9931198a75..bfc554e81b 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-api/src/apps.rs
@@ -3770,6 +3770,7 @@ async fn update_app_internal<'a>(
             &[UserDraftItemKind::App, UserDraftItemKind::RawApp],
             path,
             &npath,
+            (!ns.skip_draft_deletion.unwrap_or(false)).then_some(authed.email.as_str()),
         )
         .await?;
     }
diff --git a/backend/windmill-common/src/user_drafts.rs b/backend/windmill-common/src/user_drafts.rs
index cf9fcee3fd..5aab500942 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-common/src/user_drafts.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-common/src/user_drafts.rs
@@ -662,13 +662,16 @@ pub async fn delete_own_draft_for_path(
 ///
 /// A draft already at `new_path` occupies it the way a deployed item does, so the move is
 /// refused with `BadRequest` inside the deploy's transaction, refusing the rename itself:
-/// moving onto it would merge two items or strand the row that lost.
+/// moving onto it would merge two items or strand the row that lost. `consumed_by` names
+/// the owner whose row there this deploy consumes, which is the draft being deployed after
+/// an earlier move carried it, and so cannot be in its own way.
 pub async fn move_drafts_for_path(
     tx: &mut sqlx::Transaction<'_, sqlx::Postgres>,
     w_id: &str,
     kinds: &[UserDraftItemKind],
     old_path: &str,
     new_path: &str,
+    consumed_by: Option<&str>,
 ) -> Result<()> {
     let typs = kinds.iter().map(|k| k.as_str()).collect::<Vec<_>>();
     // Named by workspace username, as the editors name other users' drafts: the
@@ -679,10 +682,21 @@ pub async fn move_drafts_for_path(
            LEFT JOIN usr u ON u.workspace_id = d.workspace_id AND u.email = d.email
            LEFT JOIN password p ON p.email = d.email AND p.super_admin = true
            WHERE d.workspace_id = $1 AND d.path = $2 AND d.typ::text = ANY($3::text[])
+             -- A row of the consuming owner's that a move brought here from the very path
+             -- being renamed is the draft this deploy carries, not an item in its way. Any
+             -- other row of theirs is a second item and still collides.
+             AND ($4::text IS NULL OR d.email IS DISTINCT FROM $4 OR NOT EXISTS (
+                 SELECT 1 FROM draft_move m
+                 WHERE m.workspace_id = $1 AND m.typ::text = ANY($3::text[])
+                   AND m.old_path = $5 AND m.new_path = $2
+                   AND (m.email IS NULL OR m.email = $4)
+             ))
            ORDER BY 2"#,
         w_id,
         new_path,
         &typs as &[&str],
+        consumed_by,
+        old_path,
     )
     .fetch_all(&mut **tx)
     .await?;