diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 547648f..2e0aeda 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- on a terminal, a warning for the last file of a phase no longer erases the
+  phase's finished bar: the bar is drawn again below the warning (2026-10-14,
+  https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/issues/102)
+
 - `scan` records mtime to the nanosecond, as whole seconds in `mtime` plus
   `mtime_nsec`, and compares it at that resolution, so a same-size rewrite
   within the same second is re-hashed (2026-10-07,
diff --git a/progress.go b/progress.go
index bc042e8..79b05bb 100644
--- a/progress.go
+++ b/progress.go
@@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ func (p *progress) warnf(format string, args ...any) {
 	}
 
 	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, msg)
+
+	// The library never draws a finished bar again, so the warning for
+	// a pass's last item would erase it for good: draw its last frame
+	// again below the warning.
+	if p.bar != nil && p.bar.IsFinished() {
+		fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, p.bar.String())
+	}
 }
 
 // finish terminates the pass's display. A bar whose pass stopped short
diff --git a/progress_test.go b/progress_test.go
index 2d36e5f..453fa94 100644
--- a/progress_test.go
+++ b/progress_test.go
@@ -187,3 +187,25 @@ func TestBarStoppedShortKeepsCount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("terminal shows %q, want a count of 2 of 10", shown)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestWarningAfterLastItemKeepsBar checks that a warning printed after
+// a pass's last item, as for a failed read of the last file, leaves the
+// pass's finished bar on the terminal below the warning.
+//
+//nolint:paralleltest // captureStderr replaces the process-wide os.Stderr
+func TestWarningAfterLastItemKeepsBar(t *testing.T) {
+	stderr := captureStderr(t)
+	p := &progress{
+		label: "hash", total: 2, start: time.Now(),
+		bar: newBar("hash", 2),
+	}
+
+	p.increment()
+	p.increment()
+	p.warnf("warning")
+	p.finish()
+
+	if shown := lastFrame(stderr()); !strings.Contains(shown, "(2/2,") {
+		t.Errorf("terminal shows %q, want a count of 2 of 2", shown)
+	}
+}