diff --git a/manifest.ts b/manifest.ts
index 152b776..bdc4ecf 100644
--- a/manifest.ts
+++ b/manifest.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ import type { PluginManifest } from '@@/plugins/manifest';
  */
 export const manifest: PluginManifest = {
   publisher: 'officerdev',
-  version: '2026.08.29.23',
+  version: '2026.08.29.24',
   platform: '>=1.0.0',
 
   label: 'Fofos',
diff --git a/web/MediaPanel.tsx b/web/MediaPanel.tsx
index a8e1aec..ef818b9 100644
--- a/web/MediaPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/MediaPanel.tsx
@@ -91,14 +91,18 @@ export const MediaPanel = () => {
     `rootLabel` so the breadcrumb reads "Media" rather than "originals": the folder's name on disk is
     an implementation detail of how this plugin lays out a root, and the section is called Media.
 
-    `urlPath` puts the current folder in `?path=`, so a reload lands where you were and a link can be
-    sent to somebody. it is opt-in in the platform because a screen with TWO browsers would have them
-    fighting over one parameter — this screen has one, so it is safe here and not in general.
+    `pathParam` keeps the folder in `?media=`, so a reload lands where you were and the link can be sent
+    to somebody. NOT `urlPath`, which was the first attempt and was wrong: that one owns the URL's
+    PATHNAME and navigates to /files, so opening a folder here took the whole app to the Files screen.
 
-    `panelId` stays as well: it remembers the folder for a panel that is re-opened rather than reloaded,
-    which the URL cannot cover.
+    `?media=` rather than `?path=` because this screen already carries `?section=` and may one day carry
+    another browser; a param named after what it addresses cannot collide with one named after a
+    concept.
+
+    `panelId` stays alongside: the URL covers a reload or a shared link, panelId covers a panel
+    re-opened later, which the URL cannot.
   */
-  return <FileBrowserApp basePath={base} rootLabel="Media" urlPath panelId="fofos-admin-media" />;
+  return <FileBrowserApp basePath={base} rootLabel="Media" pathParam="media" panelId="fofos-admin-media" />;
 };
 
 const Notice = ({ icon: Icon, children }: { icon: typeof FolderOpen; children: React.ReactNode }) => (