diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/ClipDetail/ClipDetailModal.vue b/src/renderer/src/components/ClipDetail/ClipDetailModal.vue
index a87abdb..1551802 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/ClipDetail/ClipDetailModal.vue
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/ClipDetail/ClipDetailModal.vue
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ import { useClipNeighbours } from '@renderer/composables/clips/useClipNeighbours
  *   with the video, which gave real weight to the one thing nobody opens a clip
  *   to find out. Still there, and now they read as a footnote.
  */
-const { openClipId, view, close, show, back, open } = useClipDetail();
+const { openClipId, view, close, show, back, open, countsAsOpen } = useClipDetail();
 const toastStore = useToastStore();
 const collectionsStore = useCollectionsStore();
 
@@ -112,9 +112,12 @@ watch(
      * Here rather than anywhere finer grained: this watcher fires once per
      * open, where a Range request fires several times a second.
      */
-    void recordClipOpened(id).catch((error) => {
-      console.debug('Could not record that this clip was opened:', error);
-    });
+    // Not when Storage Saver opened it: see `countsAsOpen`.
+    if (countsAsOpen.value) {
+      void recordClipOpened(id).catch((error) => {
+        console.debug('Could not record that this clip was opened:', error);
+      });
+    }
 
     // A clip opened after another should not inherit the last one's expanded
     // date or a half-open sheet.
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/components/Storage/StorageClipTile.vue b/src/renderer/src/components/Storage/StorageClipTile.vue
index 00cee31..a3188c7 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/components/Storage/StorageClipTile.vue
+++ b/src/renderer/src/components/Storage/StorageClipTile.vue
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ const frame = computed(() => [
       type="button"
       :class="['group/pic relative block w-full aspect-21/9 bg-video-bed cursor-pointer', FOCUS_RING]"
       :aria-label="`Watch ${title}`"
-      @click="openClip(clip.id)"
+      @click="openClip(clip.id, 'details', { countAsOpen: false })"
       @mousemove="preview"
       @mouseleave="stopPreview"
     >
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/composables/clips/useClipDetail.ts b/src/renderer/src/composables/clips/useClipDetail.ts
index 992aa26..ec1489e 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/composables/clips/useClipDetail.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/composables/clips/useClipDetail.ts
@@ -42,14 +42,29 @@ const view = ref<ClipView>('details');
  */
 const cameFrom = ref<'library' | 'details'>('details');
 
+/**
+ * Whether this opening counts as somebody watching the clip.
+ *
+ * False only when Storage Saver opens it. That screen lists the clips nobody
+ * ever opened, and a look is how somebody there decides whether to delete
+ * one, so counting it would take the clip off the list the moment it was
+ * watched: it could never be deleted from the screen that exists to delete
+ * it. Held for as long as the layer is open, so stepping to the next clip
+ * inside it does not start counting, and put back on close.
+ */
+const countsAsOpen = ref(true);
+
 export function useClipDetail() {
   return {
     openClipId,
     view,
     cameFrom,
 
+    countsAsOpen,
+
     /** Open the layer from nothing, on whichever panel was asked for. */
-    open: (id: number, as: ClipView = 'details') => {
+    open: (id: number, as: ClipView = 'details', options: { countAsOpen?: boolean } = {}) => {
+      countsAsOpen.value = options.countAsOpen ?? true;
       openClipId.value = id;
       view.value = as;
       cameFrom.value = 'library';
@@ -81,6 +96,7 @@ export function useClipDetail() {
      * to reset.
      */
     close: () => {
+      countsAsOpen.value = true;
       openClipId.value = null;
     },
   };