diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/home_tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/home_tests.rs
index 1179b1c4..f2091f01 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/home_tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/home_tests.rs
@@ -22,11 +22,22 @@ fn shapes(u: &mut Ui) -> Vec<Shape> {
     flat(&u.frame_output(vec![]).shapes)
 }
 
-/// Enough frames for every thumbnail in view (they render one a frame) and what follows a click.
+/// Enough frames for every thumbnail in view (they render one a frame) and what follows a click,
+/// then until every recent file has been looked at: the reader is a thread of its own, and until it
+/// answers a file's card is a skeleton without its name (on a loaded machine, 12 frames weren't
+/// always enough, #351).
 fn settle(u: &mut Ui) -> Vec<Shape> {
     for _ in 0..12 {
         u.frame(vec![]);
     }
+    for _ in 0..400 {
+        let files = u.app.inspect()["homeRecents"]["files"].as_array().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
+        if files.iter().all(|f| !f["exists"].is_null()) {
+            break;
+        }
+        std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(5));
+        u.frame(vec![]);
+    }
     shapes(u)
 }