diff --git a/sidecar/handlers_folders.go b/sidecar/handlers_folders.go
index d5a7e09..ca0fba7 100644
--- a/sidecar/handlers_folders.go
+++ b/sidecar/handlers_folders.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"log/slog"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
@@ -183,16 +184,18 @@ type folderCountsRow struct {
 // `/photos?count=1000` per folder from the browser (≈1 MB JSON per
 // folder × N folders) to populate the left-sidebar tree. Moving the
 // fan-out into the sidecar keeps the same correctness profile — same
-// q-DSL, same `merged=false` UID dedupe, same 1000-row server cap —
-// but the wire payload back to the browser collapses to a single small
-// JSON object (`{path: count}`).
+// q-DSL, same `merged=false` UID dedupe — but the wire payload back
+// to the browser collapses to a single small JSON object
+// (`{path: count}`).
 //
-// We bounce off PhotoPrism with `count=1000` and dedupe UIDs server-
-// side rather than trusting a count header: PhotoPrism's `/photos`
-// X-Count is the *per-page* row count (per existing front-end
-// comment), not the total-match count, so we'd silently undercount if
-// we used it. Lifting the 1000 cap would mean either iterating offsets
-// or growing PhotoPrism's response cap — both out of scope here.
+// We bounce off PhotoPrism with paginated `count=1000` calls and dedupe
+// UIDs server-side rather than trusting a count header: PhotoPrism's
+// `/photos` X-Count is the *per-page* row count (per existing front-end
+// comment), not the total-match count, so we'd silently undercount any
+// folder with more than 1000 files. The loop walks offsets until PP
+// returns a short page, so the result is correct regardless of folder
+// size (until the wider fan-out becomes the bottleneck, which is many
+// orders of magnitude away on this hardware).
 //
 // Bounded concurrency caps the fan-out so a library with hundreds of
 // folders doesn't open hundreds of connections to PhotoPrism at once.
@@ -245,31 +248,39 @@ func handleFolderCounts(pp *ppClient) gin.HandlerFunc {
 				// UID — which is what the old client-side code did, and
 				// what we keep doing here.
 				q := url.QueryEscape(`path:"` + path + `*"`)
-				resp, err := pp.call(c.Request.Context(), http.MethodGet,
-					"/api/v1/photos?count=1000&offset=0&merged=false&q="+q, token, nil)
-				if err != nil || !resp.OK {
-					slog.Warn("folder.counts: pp call failed",
-						"path", path,
-						"err", err,
-						"status", func() int {
-							if resp != nil {
-								return resp.Status
-							}
-							return 0
-						}())
-					return
-				}
-				var rows []folderCountsRow
-				if err := json.Unmarshal(resp.Body, &rows); err != nil {
-					slog.Warn("folder.counts: parse failed", "path", path, "err", err)
-					return
-				}
-				seen := make(map[string]struct{}, len(rows))
-				for _, r := range rows {
-					if r.UID == "" {
-						continue
+				const pageSize = 1000
+				seen := make(map[string]struct{})
+				for offset := 0; ; offset += pageSize {
+					resp, err := pp.call(c.Request.Context(), http.MethodGet,
+						fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/photos?count=%d&offset=%d&merged=false&q=%s", pageSize, offset, q),
+						token, nil)
+					if err != nil || !resp.OK {
+						slog.Warn("folder.counts: pp call failed",
+							"path", path,
+							"offset", offset,
+							"err", err,
+							"status", func() int {
+								if resp != nil {
+									return resp.Status
+								}
+								return 0
+							}())
+						return
+					}
+					var rows []folderCountsRow
+					if err := json.Unmarshal(resp.Body, &rows); err != nil {
+						slog.Warn("folder.counts: parse failed", "path", path, "offset", offset, "err", err)
+						return
+					}
+					for _, r := range rows {
+						if r.UID == "" {
+							continue
+						}
+						seen[r.UID] = struct{}{}
+					}
+					if len(rows) < pageSize {
+						break
 					}
-					seen[r.UID] = struct{}{}
 				}
 				mu.Lock()
 				counts[path] = len(seen)
diff --git a/web/src/lib/components/layout/LeftSidebar.svelte b/web/src/lib/components/layout/LeftSidebar.svelte
index 5bb1547..975ac7d 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/components/layout/LeftSidebar.svelte
+++ b/web/src/lib/components/layout/LeftSidebar.svelte
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
 	// BasePath shape and never fall back to the category-count.
 	const labelsCountQuery = createQuery<number>(() => ({
 		queryKey: ['photos', 'scoped-count', 'labels', userBasePath(), isAdminUser],
-		queryFn: () => countPhotos(scoped('all:true label:*')),
+		queryFn: () => countPhotos(scoped('label:*')),
 		enabled: isAuthenticated(),
 		staleTime: 60_000
 	}));