diff --git a/docs/commons-files-desk.md b/docs/commons-files-desk.md
index 511b0dbc..7b06bb9d 100644
--- a/docs/commons-files-desk.md
+++ b/docs/commons-files-desk.md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Status 2026-11-13: cut 1 merged to dev as bb615570 (PR #147); cuts 2-5 follow. C
 2. **Pagination** of albums and files in `useAlbums` (done, PR #148).
 3. **Folders by title path** and the album list grouped by it.
 4. **Versions**: read `org.gamecult.publish.replaces`, show the latest of a chain with the earlier versions folded under it (done, PR #149).
-5. **Add files to an existing album**, with per-file progress, cancel and the refusal messages above (the upload flow). Done: adding to an open album and the three refusal messages (PR #150); cancel of a send in flight is not, and needs an abort path through `uploadContent`.
+5. **Add files to an existing album**, with per-file progress, cancel and the refusal messages above (the upload flow). Done: adding to an open album and the three refusal messages (PR #150); Stop for a send in flight is in too (PR for follow-up `files-desk-release-146-and-send-cancel`): it cancels the running upload through `onPromise` and `mx.cancelUpload`.
 
 PR #143 (Option B cut 1: contract types, host client, fake host) is **held**; under A it is not needed and would be closed. Its Soul pass found, and a revived B would have to close, an unvalidated `host` that could send the bearer to the wrong origin, hostile-looking entry names beyond separators, loose numeric checks and missing CSP and `Content-Disposition` headers in the fake.
 
diff --git a/docs/file-zone.md b/docs/file-zone.md
index 0a895226..420f7016 100644
--- a/docs/file-zone.md
+++ b/docs/file-zone.md
@@ -120,4 +120,4 @@ Client, `src/app/features/albums`:
 
 Flag: `fileZoneShare.enabled` in `config.json`, default `false`. With it off nothing mounts.
 
-Not built: a Mind's own path into the zone (outbox, Persona decision, mouth post) belongs to gamecult-ops / Huginn / the mouth, not this client; cancel of a send in flight (a pick can be cancelled before it goes). Built since: pagination to 20 pages of 100 per endpoint (PR #148), adding files to an open album with named refusals (`M_TOO_LARGE`, `M_FORBIDDEN`, `M_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`).
+Not built: a Mind's own path into the zone (outbox, Persona decision, mouth post) belongs to gamecult-ops / Huginn / the mouth, not this client; Built since: Stop for a send in flight (aborts the running upload, leaves it and the rest picked as "stopped"), pagination to 20 pages of 100 per endpoint (PR #148), adding files to an open album with named refusals (`M_TOO_LARGE`, `M_FORBIDDEN`, `M_LIMIT_EXCEEDED`).
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/AlbumView.tsx b/src/app/features/albums/AlbumView.tsx
index fc76744a..d6ee37c9 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/AlbumView.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/AlbumView.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { markAsRead } from '../../utils/notifications';
 import { getBlobSafeMimeType } from '../../utils/mimeTypes';
 import { timeDayMonYear } from '../../utils/time';
 import { getMemberDisplayName } from '../../utils/room';
-import { Album, AlbumFile, lastEventId } from './buildAlbums';
+import { Album, AlbumFile, lastEvent } from './buildAlbums';
 import { folderOf, listFolder, pathLabel } from './albumFolders';
 import { FileReadBy } from './FileReadBy';
 import { ShareSet, useShareEnabled } from './ShareSet';
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ export function AlbumView({ room, onTimeline }: AlbumViewProps) {
           <ShareSet
             key={open.id}
             room={room}
-            into={{ albumId: open.id, lastId: lastEventId(open) }}
+            into={{ albumId: open.id, lastId: lastEvent(open).id, lastTs: lastEvent(open).ts }}
           />
         )}
         <div className={images ? `${css.Files} ${css.FilesWide}` : css.Files}>
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.folder.test.tsx b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.folder.test.tsx
index a19f6e16..f4ec40f5 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.folder.test.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.folder.test.tsx
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ vi.mock('./shareController', () => ({
 }));
 vi.mock('./shareSet', async (importOriginal) => ({
   ...(await importOriginal<typeof import('./shareSet')>()),
-  sendShareSet: async (_port: unknown, into: string | { albumId: string }) => {
-    captured.titles.push(typeof into === 'string' ? into : `into:${into.albumId}`);
+  sendShareSet: async (_port: unknown, into: string | { albumId: string; lastId: string }) => {
+    captured.titles.push(typeof into === 'string' ? into : `into:${into.albumId}@${into.lastId}`);
     return { albumId: '$a', sent: 0, failed: [], failedAt: [] };
   },
 }));
@@ -42,8 +42,19 @@ vi.mock('react', async (importOriginal) => {
 // eslint-disable-next-line import/first
 import { ShareSet } from './ShareSet';
 
-const mount = (folder?: string[], into?: { albumId: string; lastId: string }) => {
-  const room = { roomId: '!r:x', hasEncryptionStateEvent: () => false } as never;
+const timeline: unknown[] = [];
+const ev = (id: string, ts: number, threadRootId?: string, status: string | null = null) => ({
+  getId: () => id,
+  getTs: () => ts,
+  threadRootId,
+  status,
+});
+const mount = (folder?: string[], into?: { albumId: string; lastId: string; lastTs: number }) => {
+  const room = {
+    roomId: '!r:x',
+    hasEncryptionStateEvent: () => false,
+    getLiveTimeline: () => ({ getEvents: () => timeline }),
+  } as never;
   renderToStaticMarkup(
     <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>
       <MatrixClientProvider value={{ sendMessage: async () => ({ event_id: '$e' }) } as never}>
@@ -61,6 +72,7 @@ describe('ShareSet: the folder reaches the album title', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     captured.run = undefined;
     captured.titles.length = 0;
+    timeline.length = 0;
   });
 
   it('at the top, the typed title goes as typed', async () => {
@@ -84,7 +96,19 @@ describe('ShareSet: the folder reaches the album title', () => {
   });
 
   it('an existing album takes the files instead of a title, whatever the folder', async () => {
-    mount(['a'], { albumId: '$alb', lastId: '$last' });
-    expect(await send('ignored')).toBe('into:$alb');
+    mount(['a'], { albumId: '$alb', lastId: '$last', lastTs: 5 });
+    expect(await send('ignored')).toBe('into:$alb@$last');
+  });
+
+  it('the freshest sent event of that thread in the room timeline is where the files thread after', async () => {
+    timeline.push(
+      ev('$other', 99, '$else'),
+      ev('$local', 98, '$alb', 'sending'),
+      ev('$new', 50, '$alb'),
+      ev('$sentNotEchoed', 60, '$alb', 'sent'),
+      ev('$failed', 70, '$alb', 'not_sent')
+    );
+    mount(['a'], { albumId: '$alb', lastId: '$last', lastTs: 5 });
+    expect(await send('x')).toBe('into:$alb@$sentNotEchoed');
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.test.tsx b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.test.tsx
index 6ae47613..b3da7a3d 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.test.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.test.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ const view = (over: Partial<ShareState<File>> = {}, adding = false) =>
       onTitle={noop}
       onSend={noop}
       onCancel={noop}
+      onStop={noop}
       adding={adding}
     />
   );
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ describe('the share panel, drawn', () => {
       phase: { kind: 'sending', done: 2 },
     });
     expect(text(html)).toContain('Sending 2 of 3…');
+    expect(text(html)).toContain('Stop');
     expect(text(html)).not.toContain('Send 3 files');
     expect(text(html)).not.toContain('Cancel');
     expect(html).toMatch(
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.tsx b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.tsx
index a8e65b4f..a7f2f783 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.tsx
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/ShareSet.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import React, { useRef, useState, useSyncExternalStore } from 'react';
 import { Text } from 'folds';
 import { useQueryClient } from '@tanstack/react-query';
-import { Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
+import { EventStatus, Room } from 'matrix-js-sdk';
 import { useMatrixClient } from '../../hooks/useMatrixClient';
 import { useClientConfig } from '../../hooks/useClientConfig';
 import { uploadContent } from '../../utils/matrix';
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { getMsgContent } from '../room/msgContent';
 import { FILE_HASH_KEY, hashForSend } from './fileReceipt';
 import { ShareController, ShareState, createShareController } from './shareController';
 import { titleIn } from './albumFolders';
-import { DEFAULT_TITLE, ExistingAlbum, sendShareSet } from './shareSet';
+import { DEFAULT_TITLE, ExistingAlbum, freshest, sendShareSet, ThreadEvent } from './shareSet';
 import * as css from './AlbumView.css';
 
 /** Off unless `fileZoneShare.enabled` is true. An encrypted zone is never offered the share. */
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ type ShareViewProps = {
   onTitle: (title: string) => void;
   onSend: () => void;
   onCancel: () => void;
+  onStop: () => void;
   /** Adding to an existing album: the files join it, so there is no title to ask for. */
   adding?: boolean;
   inputRef?: React.Ref<HTMLInputElement>;
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ export function ShareSetView({
   onTitle,
   onSend,
   onCancel,
+  onStop,
   adding,
   inputRef,
 }: ShareViewProps) {
@@ -85,9 +87,14 @@ export function ShareSetView({
             {files.map((f) => f.name).join(' · ')}
           </Text>
           {phase.kind === 'sending' ? (
-            <Text size="T300">
-              Sending {phase.done} of {files.length}…
-            </Text>
+            <>
+              <Text size="T300">
+                Sending {phase.done} of {files.length}…
+              </Text>
+              <button type="button" className={css.Row} onClick={onStop}>
+                <Text size="B400">Stop</Text>
+              </button>
+            </>
           ) : (
             <>
               <button type="button" className={css.Row} onClick={onSend}>
@@ -106,6 +113,14 @@ export function ShareSetView({
   );
 }
 
+/** The sent events in the room's live timeline, as the thread view of them `freshest` reads. */
+const threadEvents = (room: Room): ThreadEvent[] =>
+  room
+    .getLiveTimeline()
+    .getEvents()
+    .filter((e) => (!e.status || e.status === EventStatus.SENT) && !!e.getId())
+    .map((e) => ({ id: e.getId() as string, ts: e.getTs(), threadRoot: e.threadRootId }));
+
 type ShareSetProps = {
   room: Room;
   /** The path a new album lands in: its title is prefixed by it (docs/commons-files-desk.md). */
@@ -127,15 +142,27 @@ export function ShareSet({ room, folder = [], into }: ShareSetProps) {
       isEncrypted: () => live.current.room.hasEncryptionStateEvent(),
       onSent: () =>
         live.current.queryClient.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['albums', room.roomId] }),
-      run: (files, title, onFile) =>
+      run: (files, title, onFile, signal) =>
         sendShareSet(
           {
+            signal,
             send: async (content) =>
               (await live.current.mx.sendMessage(room.roomId, content as any)).event_id,
             contentOf: async (f) => {
               const file = safeFile(f.file);
               const mxc = await new Promise<string>((resolve, reject) => {
-                uploadContent(live.current.mx, file, { onSuccess: resolve, onError: reject });
+                const { mx: client } = live.current;
+                let upload: Promise<unknown> | undefined;
+                const abort = () => upload && client.cancelUpload(upload as never);
+                signal.addEventListener('abort', abort, { once: true });
+                uploadContent(client, file, {
+                  onPromise: (p) => {
+                    upload = p;
+                    if (signal.aborted) abort();
+                  },
+                  onSuccess: resolve,
+                  onError: reject,
+                });
               });
               const content = await getMsgContent(
                 live.current.mx,
@@ -153,7 +180,9 @@ export function ShareSet({ room, folder = [], into }: ShareSetProps) {
             },
             onFile,
           },
-          live.current.into ?? titleIn(live.current.folder, title, DEFAULT_TITLE),
+          live.current.into
+            ? freshest(live.current.into, threadEvents(live.current.room))
+            : titleIn(live.current.folder, title, DEFAULT_TITLE),
           files.map((file) => ({ name: file.name, mimeType: file.type, file }))
         ),
     })
@@ -168,6 +197,7 @@ export function ShareSet({ room, folder = [], into }: ShareSetProps) {
       onTitle={controller.setTitle}
       onSend={controller.send}
       onCancel={controller.cancel}
+      onStop={controller.stop}
       adding={!!into}
     />
   );
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.test.ts b/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.test.ts
index 4bf72d0e..e1e7964b 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
-import { AlbumInput, ZoneEvent, buildAlbums, lastEventId } from './buildAlbums';
+import { AlbumInput, ZoneEvent, buildAlbums, lastEvent } from './buildAlbums';
 
 const root = (id: string, ts: number, over: Partial<ZoneEvent> = {}): ZoneEvent => ({
   event_id: id,
@@ -239,14 +239,15 @@ describe('versions: cover and sender', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('lastEventId', () => {
+describe('lastEvent', () => {
   it('is the newest event of the thread, a folded version included; the root when empty', () => {
     const v = (id: string, ts: number, replaces?: string) =>
       reply(id, ts, 'm.file', id, replaces ? { 'org.gamecult.publish': { replaces } } : {});
-    expect(lastEventId(one(root('$r', 1), [v('$a', 10), v('$b', 20, '$a'), v('$c', 15)]))).toBe(
-      '$b'
-    );
-    expect(lastEventId(one(root('$r', 1), []))).toBe('$r');
+    expect(lastEvent(one(root('$r', 1), [v('$a', 10), v('$b', 20, '$a'), v('$c', 15)]))).toEqual({
+      id: '$b',
+      ts: 20,
+    });
+    expect(lastEvent(one(root('$r', 1), []))).toEqual({ id: '$r', ts: 1 });
   });
 });
 
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.ts b/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.ts
index 0fe2d113..f7b18382 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/buildAlbums.ts
@@ -136,8 +136,10 @@ export const buildAlbums = (inputs: AlbumInput[], server = ''): Album[] => {
 };
 
 /** The newest event in an album's thread (shown or folded), else its root: where a new file threads after. */
-export const lastEventId = (album: Album): string =>
+export const lastEvent = (album: Album): { id: string; ts: number } =>
   album.files
     .flatMap((f) => [f, ...f.earlier])
-    .reduce<AlbumFile | undefined>((a, f) => (!a || f.ts >= a.ts ? f : a), undefined)?.id ??
-  album.id;
+    .reduce<{ id: string; ts: number }>((a, f) => (f.ts >= a.ts ? { id: f.id, ts: f.ts } : a), {
+      id: album.id,
+      ts: album.ts,
+    });
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/shareController.test.ts b/src/app/features/albums/shareController.test.ts
index 3cbc03ce..98c31a60 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/shareController.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/shareController.test.ts
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ const ok = (n: number): ShareResult => ({ albumId: '$r', sent: n, failed: [], fa
 
 /** A run the test settles by hand, so "in flight" is a state the test can stand in. */
 const hand = () => {
-  const calls: { files: Picked[]; title: string; onFile: () => void }[] = [];
+  const calls: { files: Picked[]; title: string; onFile: () => void; signal: AbortSignal }[] = [];
   let release: (r: ShareResult) => void = () => undefined;
   let fail: (e: Error) => void = () => undefined;
-  const run: ShareDeps<Picked>['run'] = (files, title, onFile) => {
-    calls.push({ files, title, onFile });
+  const run: ShareDeps<Picked>['run'] = (files, title, onFile, signal) => {
+    calls.push({ files, title, onFile, signal });
     return new Promise<ShareResult>((resolve, reject) => {
       release = resolve;
       fail = reject;
@@ -259,3 +259,23 @@ describe('an encrypted room', () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+describe('Stop', () => {
+  it('aborts the signal of the send in flight, and only that send', async () => {
+    const { c, h } = make();
+    c.pick([file('a'), file('b')]);
+    c.stop(); // nothing running: nothing to abort
+    const sending = c.send();
+    expect(h.calls[0].signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    c.stop();
+    expect(h.calls[0].signal.aborted).toBe(true);
+    h.release({ albumId: '$r', sent: 0, failed: ['a', 'b'], failedAt: [0, 1] });
+    await sending;
+    expect(c.getState().files.map((f) => f.name)).toEqual(['a', 'b']);
+    // the next send gets a fresh signal
+    const again = c.send();
+    expect(h.calls[1].signal.aborted).toBe(false);
+    h.release(ok(2));
+    await again;
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/shareController.ts b/src/app/features/albums/shareController.ts
index b6219c72..c7b5b521 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/shareController.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/shareController.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export type ShareDeps<F extends Picked> = {
   roomId: string;
   isEncrypted: () => boolean;
   /** Sends the files as one album; reports each settled file through onFile. */
-  run: (files: F[], title: string, onFile: () => void) => Promise<ShareResult>;
+  run: (files: F[], title: string, onFile: () => void, signal: AbortSignal) => Promise<ShareResult>;
   /** Called after a send that reached the room, whatever it left unsent. */
   onSent?: () => void;
 };
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const sending = new Set<string>();
 export const createShareController = <F extends Picked>(deps: ShareDeps<F>) => {
   let state: ShareState<F> = { files: [], title: '', phase: { kind: 'idle' }, epoch: 0 };
   const listeners = new Set<() => void>();
+  let running: AbortController | undefined;
   const set = (patch: Partial<ShareState<F>>) => {
     state = { ...state, ...patch };
     listeners.forEach((l) => l());
@@ -48,14 +49,21 @@ export const createShareController = <F extends Picked>(deps: ShareDeps<F>) => {
       return;
     }
     sending.add(deps.roomId);
+    const abort = new AbortController();
+    running = abort;
     const { files, title } = state;
     set({ phase: { kind: 'sending', done: 0 } });
     let settled = 0;
     try {
-      const res = await deps.run(files, title, () => {
-        settled += 1;
-        set({ phase: { kind: 'sending', done: settled } });
-      });
+      const res = await deps.run(
+        files,
+        title,
+        () => {
+          settled += 1;
+          set({ phase: { kind: 'sending', done: settled } });
+        },
+        abort.signal
+      );
       deps.onSent?.();
       const left = remainingAfter(files, res);
       const phase: SharePhase = { kind: 'done', text: resultNote(res) };
@@ -65,6 +73,7 @@ export const createShareController = <F extends Picked>(deps: ShareDeps<F>) => {
     } catch (e: any) {
       set({ phase: { kind: 'done', text: `Could not share: ${e?.message ?? 'send failed'}` } });
     } finally {
+      running = undefined;
       sending.delete(deps.roomId);
     }
   };
@@ -80,6 +89,8 @@ export const createShareController = <F extends Picked>(deps: ShareDeps<F>) => {
     pick: (files: F[]) => set({ files, phase: { kind: 'idle' } }),
     setTitle: (title: string) => set({ title }),
     cancel: clear,
+    /** Stops a send in flight: the running upload is aborted and the rest are left picked. */
+    stop: () => running?.abort(),
     send,
   };
 };
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.test.ts b/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.test.ts
index d1db0b2e..3fd85700 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.test.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_TITLE,
   ShareFile,
   SharePort,
+  CANCELLED,
+  freshest,
   refusalOf,
   remainingAfter,
   resultNote,
@@ -171,7 +173,11 @@ describe('adding to an existing album', () => {
         return `$n${sent.length}`;
       },
     };
-    const res = await sendShareSet(port, { albumId: '$root', lastId: '$last' }, clips.slice(0, 2));
+    const res = await sendShareSet(
+      port,
+      { albumId: '$root', lastId: '$last', lastTs: 1 },
+      clips.slice(0, 2)
+    );
     expect(res.albumId).toBe('$root');
     expect(res.sent).toBe(2);
     expect(sent.map((c) => c.msgtype)).toEqual(['m.audio', 'm.audio']);
@@ -214,3 +220,93 @@ describe('refusals', () => {
     expect(resultNote(res)).toBe('Nothing was shared. Not sent: a.ogg');
   });
 });
+
+describe('stopping a send', () => {
+  /** A port whose upload of `stopAt` aborts the signal as it runs, as the Stop button does mid-upload. */
+  const stopping = (stopAt: string, abortAfterUpload = false) => {
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    const r = room();
+    const port: SharePort<ShareFile> = {
+      ...r.port,
+      signal: ac.signal,
+      contentOf: async (f) => {
+        if (f.name !== stopAt) return r.port.contentOf(f);
+        ac.abort();
+        if (abortAfterUpload) return r.port.contentOf(f);
+        throw Object.assign(new Error('aborted'), { name: 'AbortError' });
+      },
+    };
+    return { port, r };
+  };
+
+  it('an upload aborted mid-file leaves that file and the rest unsent, named as stopped', async () => {
+    const { port, r } = stopping('b.ogg');
+    const res = await sendShareSet(port, 't', clips);
+    expect(res.sent).toBe(1);
+    expect(res.failed).toEqual(['b.ogg', 'c.txt']);
+    expect(res.failedAt).toEqual([1, 2]);
+    expect(res.reasons).toEqual([CANCELLED, CANCELLED]);
+    expect(r.album().files.map((f) => f.name)).toEqual(['a.ogg']);
+    expect(remainingAfter(clips, res).map((f) => f.name)).toEqual(['b.ogg', 'c.txt']);
+    expect(resultNote(res)).toBe('Shared 1. Not sent: b.ogg (stopped), c.txt (stopped)');
+  });
+
+  it('a file whose upload finished after the stop is not sent', async () => {
+    const { port, r } = stopping('b.ogg', true);
+    const res = await sendShareSet(port, 't', clips);
+    expect(res.sent).toBe(1);
+    expect(res.failedAt).toEqual([1, 2]);
+    expect(r.album().files.map((f) => f.name)).toEqual(['a.ogg']);
+  });
+
+  it('a signal already aborted starts nothing and sends everything back as unsent', async () => {
+    const r = room();
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    ac.abort();
+    let uploads = 0;
+    const res = await sendShareSet(
+      {
+        ...r.port,
+        signal: ac.signal,
+        contentOf: async (f) => {
+          uploads += 1;
+          return r.port.contentOf(f);
+        },
+      },
+      { albumId: '$a', lastId: '$l', lastTs: 1 },
+      clips
+    );
+    expect(uploads).toBe(0);
+    expect(res.sent).toBe(0);
+    expect(res.failedAt).toEqual([0, 1, 2]);
+    expect(r.events).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('an abort that is not a stop is an ordinary failure', async () => {
+    const r = room(['b.ogg']);
+    const res = await sendShareSet({ ...r.port, signal: new AbortController().signal }, 't', clips);
+    expect(res.failedAt).toEqual([1]);
+    expect(res.reasons).toEqual([undefined]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('freshest', () => {
+  const album = { albumId: '$alb', lastId: '$old', lastTs: 100 };
+  it('moves lastId to a newer event of the same thread', () => {
+    expect(
+      freshest(album, [
+        { id: '$mid', ts: 150, threadRoot: '$alb' },
+        { id: '$new', ts: 200, threadRoot: '$alb' },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual({ albumId: '$alb', lastId: '$new', lastTs: 200 });
+  });
+  it('ignores older events and events of other threads or none', () => {
+    expect(
+      freshest(album, [
+        { id: '$older', ts: 50, threadRoot: '$alb' },
+        { id: '$other', ts: 900, threadRoot: '$else' },
+        { id: '$loose', ts: 900 },
+      ])
+    ).toEqual(album);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.ts b/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.ts
index c3652f62..7c30fecc 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/shareSet.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ export type SharePort<F extends ShareFile> = {
   contentOf: (file: F) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>>;
   /** Called after each file settles, for progress. */
   onFile?: (index: number, result: 'sent' | 'failed') => void;
+  /** Aborted to stop the send: the running upload is the port's to cancel, the rest are not started. */
+  signal?: AbortSignal;
 };
 
 export type ShareResult = {
@@ -26,8 +28,22 @@ export type ShareResult = {
   reasons?: (string | undefined)[];
 };
 
-/** An album that already exists: new files join its thread after `lastId`, with no new root. */
-export type ExistingAlbum = { albumId: string; lastId: string };
+/** An album that already exists: new files join its thread after `lastId` (sent at `lastTs`), with no new root. */
+export type ExistingAlbum = { albumId: string; lastId: string; lastTs: number };
+
+/** An event as the room's live timeline holds it: its id, time, and the thread root it belongs to. */
+export type ThreadEvent = { id: string; ts: number; threadRoot?: string };
+
+/**
+ * `album` with `lastId` moved to the newest event the room's timeline holds in that thread, when it
+ * is newer than the one the album list knew. The list refreshes every 30 s; the timeline does not.
+ */
+export const freshest = (album: ExistingAlbum, events: ThreadEvent[]): ExistingAlbum =>
+  events
+    .filter((e) => e.threadRoot === album.albumId)
+    .reduce((a, e) => (e.ts > a.lastTs ? { ...a, lastId: e.id, lastTs: e.ts } : a), album);
+
+export const CANCELLED = 'stopped';
 
 const REFUSALS: Record<string, string> = {
   M_TOO_LARGE: 'too large for this server',
@@ -70,15 +86,35 @@ export const sendShareSet = async <F extends ShareFile>(
       : into.albumId;
   const result: ShareResult = { albumId, sent: 0, failed: [], failedAt: [], reasons: [] };
   let lastId = typeof into === 'string' ? albumId : into.lastId;
+  // A stopped send leaves its file, and every file after it, unsent and picked, so one tap resumes.
+  const stopFrom = (from: number) => {
+    for (let j = from; j < files.length; j += 1) {
+      result.failed.push(files[j].name);
+      result.reasons?.push(CANCELLED);
+      result.failedAt.push(j);
+    }
+  };
   for (let i = 0; i < files.length; i += 1) {
+    if (port.signal?.aborted) {
+      stopFrom(i);
+      break;
+    }
     try {
       // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
       const content = await port.contentOf(files[i]);
+      if (port.signal?.aborted) {
+        stopFrom(i);
+        break;
+      }
       // eslint-disable-next-line no-await-in-loop
       lastId = await port.send({ ...content, 'm.relates_to': threadRelation(albumId, lastId) });
       result.sent += 1;
       port.onFile?.(i, 'sent');
     } catch (e) {
+      if (port.signal?.aborted) {
+        stopFrom(i);
+        break;
+      }
       result.failed.push(files[i].name);
       result.reasons?.push(refusalOf(e));
       result.failedAt.push(i);
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/versions.test.ts b/src/app/features/albums/versions.test.ts
index e8ae64b8..5179e945 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/versions.test.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/versions.test.ts
@@ -55,9 +55,13 @@ describe('foldVersions', () => {
     ]);
   });
 
-  it('a malformed loop shows no head and does not hang', () => {
+  it('files in a loop with no head outside it are all shown, none hidden', () => {
     const out = foldVersions([f('$a', '$b'), f('$b', '$a'), f('$s', '$s')]);
-    expect(out.map((x) => x.id)).toEqual(['$s']);
+    expect(shape(out)).toEqual([
+      ['$a', []],
+      ['$b', []],
+      ['$s', []],
+    ]);
   });
 
   it('a loop reached from a head is walked once and ends', () => {
diff --git a/src/app/features/albums/versions.ts b/src/app/features/albums/versions.ts
index 8c7055db..e27ff6d0 100644
--- a/src/app/features/albums/versions.ts
+++ b/src/app/features/albums/versions.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ type Versioned<F> = F & { earlier: F[] };
  * Files not replaced by another file in the list, oldest first as given, each carrying the files it
  * supersedes (nearest first) in `earlier`. A replacement whose target is missing from the list (a
  * redacted event, another thread) replaces nothing and stands as a head. A replacement by another sender is ignored. A file two others claim to
- * replace sits under both. The walk refuses to revisit a file, so a malformed chain cannot loop (an event id hashes its content, so a real one cannot cycle).
+ * replace sits under both. The walk refuses to revisit a file, so a malformed chain cannot loop (a real event id hashes its content and cannot cycle); files caught in a loop with no head outside it are all shown, none folded.
  */
 export const foldVersions = <
   F extends { id: string; sender: string; content: Record<string, unknown> }
@@ -46,5 +46,11 @@ export const foldVersions = <
     }
     return out;
   };
-  return files.filter((f) => !replaced.has(f.id)).map((h) => ({ ...h, earlier: chainOf(h) }));
+  const heads = files.filter((f) => !replaced.has(f.id));
+  const covered = new Set(heads.flatMap((h) => [h.id, ...chainOf(h).map((e) => e.id)]));
+  // Files that replace one another with no head outside the loop are never reached from a head; show
+  // each of them as it is rather than let the loop hide itself.
+  return files
+    .filter((f) => !replaced.has(f.id) || !covered.has(f.id))
+    .map((f) => ({ ...f, earlier: replaced.has(f.id) ? [] : chainOf(f) }));
 };