diff --git a/frontend/src/components/duplicates/DuplicatesView.tsx b/frontend/src/components/duplicates/DuplicatesView.tsx
index 4d3264f..c65ef44 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/duplicates/DuplicatesView.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/duplicates/DuplicatesView.tsx
@@ -515,20 +515,25 @@ function formatBytes(n: number): string {
 }
 
 /** Short label for the bottom path strip on a duplicate thumbnail.
- *  Goal: tell two copies-with-the-same-filename apart at a glance, so
- *  we want the parent folder name — that's almost always the
- *  discriminator (different shoots, different years, different
- *  upload sources). When the parent folder is unhelpful (e.g. the
- *  filename is itself sitting at the root) we fall back to the file
- *  basename. Long folder names get text-overflow-ellipsis'd by the
- *  enclosing strip's `truncate`. */
+ *  Goal: tell two copies-with-the-same-filename apart at a glance.
+ *  Shows the last two folders ("…/<grandparent>/<parent>") so the
+ *  discriminator is visible even when both copies live under the
+ *  same parent name (e.g. matching `2023` subfolders under different
+ *  archives). The leading "…/" is always present when there's any
+ *  truncated prefix; the enclosing strip's `truncate` handles any
+ *  excess width. */
 function duplicatePathLabel(filepath: string): string {
   if (!filepath) return ''
   const parts = filepath.split('/').filter(Boolean)
   if (parts.length === 0) return filepath
-  if (parts.length === 1) return parts[0]
-  // The second-to-last segment IS the parent directory.
-  return parts[parts.length - 2]
+  // Strip the filename (last segment); only the directory chain
+  // discriminates between copies with matching basenames.
+  const folders = parts.slice(0, -1)
+  if (folders.length === 0) return parts[0]
+  if (folders.length === 1) return `…/${folders[0]}`
+  const parent = folders[folders.length - 1]
+  const grandparent = folders[folders.length - 2]
+  return `…/${grandparent}/${parent}`
 }
 
 /** Adapt a DuplicateGroupMember (the slim API shape) to a Photo, which