diff --git a/test/cli/backup-undecryptable.test.ts b/test/cli/backup-undecryptable.test.ts
index 9500dc0..f7d2573 100644
--- a/test/cli/backup-undecryptable.test.ts
+++ b/test/cli/backup-undecryptable.test.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@
  * key replaced by bytes no key opens, or its metadata text that is not JSON.
  */
 
-import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import {
+    existsSync,
+    mkdtempSync,
+    readdirSync,
+    readFileSync,
+    rmSync,
+} from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import sodium from "libsodium-wrappers-sumo";
@@ -253,6 +259,18 @@ const brokenAccount = (): FakeEnte => {
     return ente;
 };
 
+// Album 1, "Trip", holds file 10, and album 2, "Family", holds file 20. Both
+// files decrypt, but album 2's own key does not, so the album is the only
+// record left out. All of it as of time 1.
+const brokenAlbumAccount = (): FakeEnte => {
+    const ente = new FakeEnte();
+    ente.putAlbum(1, "Trip", 1);
+    ente.putFile(1, 10, 1);
+    ente.putAlbum(2, "Family", 1, true);
+    ente.putFile(2, 20, 1);
+    return ente;
+};
+
 // Collects everything written to it.
 class Output {
     text = "";
@@ -321,6 +339,12 @@ const failures = (): Record<string, { error: string; attempts: number }> => {
 const stored = (id: number): boolean =>
     existsSync(join(backupDir(), DAY, `2026-03-01.${id}.jpg`));
 
+// The IDs of the files that album `name`'s JSON lists.
+const albumFiles = (name: string): number[] =>
+    JSON.parse(
+        readFileSync(join(backupDir(), "collections", `${name}.json`), "utf-8"),
+    ).files.map((f: { id: number }) => f.id);
+
 describe("quak backup with records it cannot decrypt", () => {
     it("backs up every other file, records each file it cannot decrypt in failures.json, names each such album, and exits 1", async () => {
         expect(await backup(brokenAccount())).toBe(1);
@@ -398,6 +422,29 @@ describe("quak backup with records it cannot decrypt", () => {
         expect(stderr.text).not.toContain("FAILED");
     });
 
+    it("exits 1 when the only record it cannot decrypt is an album, and 0 once the album decrypts", async () => {
+        const ente = brokenAlbumAccount();
+
+        // No file is in `failures.json`: the album alone keeps the exit code
+        // at 1.
+        expect(await backup(ente)).toBe(1);
+        expect(failures()).toEqual({});
+
+        ente.putAlbum(2, "Family", 2);
+        expect(await backup(ente)).toBe(0);
+        expect(stored(20)).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it("exits 1 when the only record it cannot decrypt is an album, and 0 once the album is deleted", async () => {
+        const ente = brokenAlbumAccount();
+
+        expect(await backup(ente)).toBe(1);
+        expect(failures()).toEqual({});
+
+        ente.deleteAlbum(2, 2);
+        expect(await backup(ente)).toBe(0);
+    });
+
     it("backs up a file that does not decrypt in one album but does in another, and does not report it", async () => {
         // File 30 is in albums 1 and 3, each holding its key sealed under the
         // album's own key. In album 1 that is corrupt; in album 3 it is not,
@@ -412,6 +459,13 @@ describe("quak backup with records it cannot decrypt", () => {
 
         expect(stored(30)).toBe(true);
         expect(failures()).toEqual({});
+        // Album 1 has no copy of file 30 that decrypts, so it neither links
+        // the original nor lists the file; album 3 lists it.
+        expect(readdirSync(join(backupDir(), "collections", "Trip"))).toEqual(
+            [],
+        );
+        expect(albumFiles("Trip")).toEqual([]);
+        expect(albumFiles("Favorites")).toEqual([30]);
     });
 
     it("backs up that file in a run limited to the album where it does not decrypt", async () => {