diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/home/ImportProjectModal.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/home/ImportProjectModal.svelte
index b089e9fdda..af372341f0 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/home/ImportProjectModal.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/home/ImportProjectModal.svelte
@@ -89,11 +89,13 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Reloads the caller's list once the run is no longer writing. Immediate for a run that
-	 * has finished, which is the common dismissal — but `abandon()` only stops the *next*
-	 * phase, and the request already sent still lands, so a reload issued at that moment can
-	 * read the list before that write commits and leave it stale again. The cap is there so a
-	 * run that never settles still ends in a reload rather than in nothing.
+	 * The one way this dialog reloads the caller's list: once the run is no longer writing.
+	 * Both exits use it, because both can be taken mid-write — `abandon()` only stops the
+	 * *next* phase and the request already sent still lands, and `done` survives a retry so
+	 * Finish is clickable while the run is going again. A reload issued at either of those
+	 * moments reads the list before the write commits and leaves it stale, which is what the
+	 * reload exists to prevent. Immediate when nothing is running, which is the common case.
+	 * The cap is there so a run that never settles still ends in a reload rather than nothing.
 	 */
 	async function reloadWhenSettled(run: ImportExecution, reload: (() => void) | undefined) {
 		for (let i = 0; i < 60 && run.running; i++) {
@@ -205,7 +207,12 @@
 		if (slug) logFeatureUsage('home', 'template_import', { key: slug })
 		logFeatureUsage('home', 'template_setup', { key: setupKey(setupOutcome, outstanding) })
 		finishing = true
-		onImported?.()
+		// Through the same deferred reload every closing uses. `done` survives a retry, so
+		// Finish is clickable while the run is going again — reloading here would read the
+		// list mid-write, and `finishing` then stops `dismiss()` from reloading after it.
+		// One reload per closing, always after the writing stops.
+		if (execution) void reloadWhenSettled(execution, onImported)
+		else onImported?.()
 		onClose()
 	}