diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
index af6dfba47a..84d7baaf81 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/PageHeaderBar.svelte
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 			barWidth: pageHeader.barWidth,
 			chrome: padLeft + padRight + (handleShown ? handleWidth + GAP : 0),
 			trail: trailMeasures.trail,
-			summary: BAR_STAGES.map((s) => (hasSummary && s.summary ? GAP + summaryFloorWidth : 0)),
+			summary: BAR_STAGES.map(() => (hasSummary ? GAP + summaryFloorWidth : 0)),
 			actions:
 				actions.length === 0 ? [0] : actionsRigid ? actionWidths : [GAP + FLEXIBLE_ACTIONS_RESERVE],
 			folds: actions.length > 0 && actionsRigid ? (content?.actionFolds ?? 0) : 0,
@@ -236,13 +236,16 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 			</svelte:boundary>
 		</div>
 
-		{#if item && hasSummary && stage.summary}
+		{#if item && hasSummary}
 			<!-- No kind icon: the page below is the item, and saying "this is a flow" above a flow
 		     editor tells the reader what they can already see. -->
 			<div class="flex items-center gap-1 shrink-0">
-				<!-- A dot rather than a slash: the summary names the same item the path just located, it
-			     is not another level of it. -->
-				<span class="shrink-0 text-hint/40 text-xs px-0.5" aria-hidden="true">·</span>
+				<!-- A dot after the path: the summary names the same item the path just located, it is not
+			     another level of it. With the path dropped it follows the workspace, and the slash is
+			     the trail's own separator. Fixed width, so either fits the width measured below. -->
+				<span class="shrink-0 w-2 text-center text-hint/40 text-xs" aria-hidden="true"
+					>{stage.path ? '·' : '/'}</span
+				>
 				{#if item.summaryContent}
 					<!-- Read only while uncapped: capped, the box says how wide the bar let it be, not how
 				     wide the page's control wants to be. -->
@@ -315,7 +318,7 @@ The row's height matches the sidebar's own header row, so the two read as one ba
 		     what the bar caps it from. A page's own control stands in at the width last seen. -->
 			<div class="absolute -left-[99999px] top-0 invisible" aria-hidden="true" inert>
 				<div class="flex items-center gap-1 w-max" bind:clientWidth={summaryFloorWidth}>
-					<span class="shrink-0 text-hint/40 text-xs px-0.5">·</span>
+					<span class="shrink-0 w-2 text-center text-hint/40 text-xs">·</span>
 					{#if item.summaryContent}
 						<span style="width: {Math.min(summaryContentWidth, FLOOR.summary)}px"></span>
 					{:else}
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.test.ts
index 6eb8a26d6a..38be3d898e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.test.ts
@@ -34,18 +34,26 @@ describe('fitBar', () => {
 		expect(fitBar({ ...unseen, actions: [300, undefined, 100] }).fold).toBe(1)
 	})
 
-	it('takes the squeeze from the summary first, then the names, the item name last', () => {
+	it("takes the squeeze from the path's name before the summary", () => {
 		const fit = fitBar({
 			...base,
 			barWidth: 400,
 			actions: [0],
 			folds: 0,
 			trail: trail.map((w) => w - 400),
-			summary: BAR_STAGES.map((s) => (s.summary ? 100 : 0)),
+			summary: BAR_STAGES.map(() => 100),
 			natural: { family: 0, fork: 0, summary: 300, name: 300 }
 		})
-		// Stage 0 at its floors is 300px; whole, the summary and the name add 204 and 140, so 244
-		// has to go: all 204 the summary has above its floor, then 40 from the name.
-		expect(fit).toMatchObject({ stage: 0, caps: { summary: 96, name: 260 }, scopesGive: false })
+		// Stage 0 at its floors is 300px; whole, the name and the summary add 140 and 204, so 244
+		// has to go: all 140 the name has above its floor, then 104 from the summary.
+		expect(fit).toMatchObject({ stage: 0, caps: { name: 160, summary: 196 }, scopesGive: false })
+	})
+
+	it('keeps the summary and drops the path when only one of them fits', () => {
+		const natural = { family: 0, fork: 0, summary: 300, name: 300 }
+		// Stage 2 is the first without the path: the name is no longer a part the bar sizes.
+		const fit = fitBar({ ...base, barWidth: 520, natural, actions: [0], folds: 0 })
+		expect(fit.stage).toBe(2)
+		expect(fit.caps.name).toBeUndefined()
 	})
 })
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.ts
index d5cdf330d7..e10dc819aa 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/pageHeaderStages.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
  * How the page header gives up width. Whole parts drop in a fixed order, and the bar shows the
  * first stage whose parts, each held at its floor width, fit beside the page's actions. Which
  * stage that is depends on the names in the bar rather than on a pixel breakpoint. Past the last
- * stage the page's actions fold, one level at a time; past their last level the item's name
- * truncates, then the folders above it.
+ * stage the page's actions fold, one level at a time; past their last level the item's name and
+ * its summary truncate, then the folders above it.
  */
 
 /** What the breadcrumb itself drops. */
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ export type TrailStage = {
 	/** Inside a fork, the family's name before the fork's. Outside one it is the workspace's own
 	 *  name and stays until `wsButton`. */
 	familyName: boolean
+	/** The item's path. Dropped only for an item that has a summary: the summary is what a
+	 *  person calls the thing, while its path is where it is filed. Without one, the path is the
+	 *  item's only name and stays. */
+	path: boolean
 	forkName: boolean
 	/** The workspace part as its disc alone, still leading home, beside its picker's chevron. */
 	wsButton: boolean
@@ -18,13 +22,13 @@ export type TrailStage = {
 	middleLevels: boolean
 }
 
-export type BarStage = TrailStage & { summary: boolean; label: string }
+export type BarStage = TrailStage & { label: string }
 
 export const BAR_STAGES: BarStage[] = [
 	{
 		label: 'Full',
 		familyName: true,
-		summary: true,
+		path: true,
 		forkName: true,
 		wsButton: false,
 		middleLevels: true
@@ -32,15 +36,15 @@ export const BAR_STAGES: BarStage[] = [
 	{
 		label: 'Family name dropped',
 		familyName: false,
-		summary: true,
+		path: true,
 		forkName: true,
 		wsButton: false,
 		middleLevels: true
 	},
 	{
-		label: 'Summary dropped',
+		label: 'Path dropped for the summary',
 		familyName: false,
-		summary: false,
+		path: false,
 		forkName: true,
 		wsButton: false,
 		middleLevels: true
@@ -48,7 +52,7 @@ export const BAR_STAGES: BarStage[] = [
 	{
 		label: 'Fork name dropped',
 		familyName: false,
-		summary: false,
+		path: false,
 		forkName: false,
 		wsButton: false,
 		middleLevels: true
@@ -56,7 +60,7 @@ export const BAR_STAGES: BarStage[] = [
 	{
 		label: 'Workspace as its disc',
 		familyName: false,
-		summary: false,
+		path: false,
 		forkName: false,
 		wsButton: true,
 		middleLevels: true
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ export const BAR_STAGES: BarStage[] = [
 	{
 		label: 'Middle folders collapsed',
 		familyName: false,
-		summary: false,
+		path: false,
 		forkName: false,
 		wsButton: true,
 		middleLevels: false
@@ -78,8 +82,9 @@ export type TrailMeasures = { trail: number[]; family: number; fork: number; nam
 
 /** The width a part may truncate to before the next stage drops something whole. */
 export const FLOOR: Record<Part, number> = { family: 56, fork: 56, summary: 96, name: 160 }
-/** Past the last stage and fold, the name keeps this much before the folders give any. */
-export const SQUEEZED_NAME_FLOOR = 40
+/** Past the last stage and fold, the item's name and then its summary keep this much before the
+ *  folders give any. */
+export const SQUEEZED_FLOOR = 40
 
 /** Middle folders collapsed to one `…`; the first folder and the name always stay. */
 export function shownPathLevels(levels: string[], stage: TrailStage): string[] {
@@ -93,14 +98,14 @@ export function partVisible(part: Part, stage: BarStage, natural: Record<Part, n
 	if (natural[part] <= 0) return false
 	switch (part) {
 		case 'summary':
-			return stage.summary
+			return true
 		case 'family':
 			// Outside a fork the family's name is the workspace's: it goes only with the whole part.
 			return !stage.wsButton && (stage.familyName || natural.fork <= 0)
 		case 'fork':
 			return !stage.wsButton && stage.forkName
 		case 'name':
-			return true
+			return stage.path || natural.summary <= 0
 	}
 }
 
@@ -110,7 +115,7 @@ export type BarMeasure = {
 	chrome: number
 	/** Per stage: the breadcrumb with each name at its floor. */
 	trail: number[]
-	/** Per stage: the summary at its floor with the gap before it, 0 where it is dropped. */
+	/** Per stage: the summary at its floor with the separator before it, 0 where there is none. */
 	summary: number[]
 	/** Per fold level: the actions with the gap before them, undefined for a level not yet seen. */
 	actions: (number | undefined)[]
@@ -166,7 +171,8 @@ export function fitBar(m: BarMeasure): BarFit {
 	}
 
 	const at = BAR_STAGES[stage]
-	const parts = (['summary', 'family', 'fork', 'name'] as Part[]).filter((p) =>
+	// The summary gives last: it is what a person calls the item, so the path's name goes first.
+	const parts = (['family', 'fork', 'name', 'summary'] as Part[]).filter((p) =>
 		partVisible(p, at, m.natural)
 	)
 	const slack = (p: Part) => Math.max(0, m.natural[p] - Math.min(m.natural[p], FLOOR[p]))
@@ -181,6 +187,7 @@ export function fitBar(m: BarMeasure): BarFit {
 		deficit -= give
 	}
 	for (const p of parts) take(p, FLOOR[p])
-	take('name', SQUEEZED_NAME_FLOOR)
+	take('name', SQUEEZED_FLOOR)
+	take('summary', SQUEEZED_FLOOR)
 	return { stage, fold, caps, scopesGive: deficit > 0 }
 }