diff --git a/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_attached_import_service.rs b/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_attached_import_service.rs
index 14748df6..92917d55 100644
--- a/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_attached_import_service.rs
+++ b/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_attached_import_service.rs
@@ -476,6 +476,18 @@ impl RecoverableJobHandler for ThumbAttachedImport {
             }
         }
 
+        // Flush the tail — see the derived twin. The loop only checkpoints
+        // on a full batch, so the remainder went uncounted: a 105-file run
+        // reported `scanned_count: 100`, and a run shorter than one batch
+        // reported zero and left the progress bar at zero throughout.
+        if since_checkpoint > 0
+            && let Err(e) = store.checkpoint(Vec::new(), since_checkpoint as u64).await
+        {
+            return RunOutcome::Failed {
+                message: format!("final checkpoint: {e}"),
+            };
+        }
+
         // Both jobs attempt the teardown, and it no-ops unless the tree is
         // drained of files EITHER of them claims. Without this, whichever
         // job runs last leaves an empty `.thumbnails/` behind until the
diff --git a/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_derived_import_service.rs b/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_derived_import_service.rs
index 490f272a..37e67200 100644
--- a/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_derived_import_service.rs
+++ b/src/infrastructure/services/thumb_derived_import_service.rs
@@ -734,6 +734,19 @@ impl RecoverableJobHandler for ThumbDerivedImport {
             }
         }
 
+        // Flush the tail. The loop only checkpoints on a full batch, so the
+        // remainder after the last one was never counted — a run of fewer
+        // than BATCH_SIZE files reported `scanned_count: 0` against a known
+        // total and left the admin progress bar at zero for its whole life.
+        // Same fix in both imports and in transcode_import.
+        if since_checkpoint > 0
+            && let Err(e) = store.checkpoint(Vec::new(), since_checkpoint as u64).await
+        {
+            return RunOutcome::Failed {
+                message: format!("final checkpoint: {e}"),
+            };
+        }
+
         // Remove the size directories once genuinely empty, because ABSENCE
         // is what step 10e gates the fallback removal on — not emptiness.
         // Empty is momentary: an on-demand render can repopulate it the next
diff --git a/src/infrastructure/services/transcode_import_service.rs b/src/infrastructure/services/transcode_import_service.rs
index 83c29d38..27c6963d 100644
--- a/src/infrastructure/services/transcode_import_service.rs
+++ b/src/infrastructure/services/transcode_import_service.rs
@@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ impl RecoverableJobHandler for TranscodeImport {
         let mut unverified = 0u64;
         let mut failed = 0u64;
         let mut since_checkpoint = 0usize;
+        // Last entry visited, for the tail flush below.
+        let mut last_name: Option<String> = None;
 
         for name in Self::entry_names(&dir).await {
             if let Some(c) = &cursor
@@ -464,11 +466,35 @@ impl RecoverableJobHandler for TranscodeImport {
             }
 
             since_checkpoint += 1;
+            last_name = Some(name.clone());
             if let Some(failure) = checkpoint_if_due(store, &name, &mut since_checkpoint).await {
                 return failure;
             }
         }
 
+        // Flush the tail.
+        //
+        // `checkpoint_if_due` only fires on a full batch, so a run shorter
+        // than BATCH_SIZE never checkpointed at all and reported
+        // `scanned_count: 0` against a known `total_rows` — the admin
+        // progress bar sat at zero through the whole run and finished
+        // there. Longer runs were wrong too, just less visibly: the
+        // remainder after the last full batch was never counted.
+        //
+        // Cursor-wise this is a no-op — the walk is finished, so nothing
+        // will resume from it — but the scanned delta is what the progress
+        // display reads, and it has to include the last partial batch.
+        if since_checkpoint > 0
+            && let Some(name) = last_name
+            && let Err(e) = store
+                .checkpoint(name.into_bytes(), since_checkpoint as u64)
+                .await
+        {
+            return RunOutcome::Failed {
+                message: format!("final checkpoint: {e}"),
+            };
+        }
+
         // Remove the tree once drained. Deletion first, rename only if a
         // non-cache file is in the way — same rule as `.thumbnails/`, and
         // for the same reason: absence is what the read path tests, and a