diff --git a/src/web/public/styles.css b/src/web/public/styles.css
index 19631492..9cb4a7d7 100644
--- a/src/web/public/styles.css
+++ b/src/web/public/styles.css
@@ -15977,8 +15977,10 @@ body.touch-device.cjk-input-visible .main {
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
+/* An ordinary status fits one line; a refusal may not, and it must be readable whole. */
 .path-picker-status.error {
   color: var(--danger, #ef4444);
+  white-space: normal;
 }
 
 .path-picker-list {
diff --git a/test/path-picker-new-folder.test.ts b/test/path-picker-new-folder.test.ts
index 3f13f3bf..03436d0d 100644
--- a/test/path-picker-new-folder.test.ts
+++ b/test/path-picker-new-folder.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 const PUBLIC = resolve(import.meta.dirname, '../src/web/public');
 const accessoryJs = readFileSync(resolve(PUBLIC, 'keyboard-accessory.js'), 'utf8');
 const sessionUiJs = readFileSync(resolve(PUBLIC, 'session-ui.js'), 'utf8');
+const stylesCss = readFileSync(resolve(PUBLIC, 'styles.css'), 'utf8');
 
 const dom = new JSDOM('<!DOCTYPE html><html><body></body></html>', { url: 'https://localhost/' });
 const jsdomWindow = dom.window as unknown as Window & typeof globalThis;
@@ -166,22 +167,31 @@ describe('PathPicker New folder', () => {
     expect(doc.querySelector('.path-picker-overlay')).not.toBeNull();
   });
 
+  // A picker's whole options object: a fixed window stops short of the container picker's long one.
+  const pickerOptions = (name: string) => {
+    const start = sessionUiJs.indexOf(`${name}() {`);
+    expect(start, name).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+    const open = sessionUiJs.indexOf('PathPicker.open', start);
+    expect(open, name).toBeGreaterThan(start);
+    const end = sessionUiJs.indexOf('\n    });', open);
+    expect(end, name).toBeGreaterThan(open);
+    return sessionUiJs.slice(open, end);
+  };
+
   it("is on for Create New's custom folder picker too", () => {
-    const start = sessionUiJs.indexOf('openNewCasePathPicker() {');
-    expect(sessionUiJs.slice(start, sessionUiJs.indexOf('PathPicker.open', start) + 400)).toContain(
-      'allowNewFolder: true'
-    );
+    expect(pickerOptions('openNewCasePathPicker')).toContain('allowNewFolder: true');
   });
 
-  it('is on for Link Existing and off for the other session-ui pickers', () => {
-    const block = (name: string) => {
-      const start = sessionUiJs.indexOf(`${name}() {`);
-      expect(start, name).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
-      return sessionUiJs.slice(start, sessionUiJs.indexOf('PathPicker.open', start) + 400);
-    };
-    expect(block('openLinkCasePathPicker')).toContain('allowNewFolder: true');
+  it('is on for Link Existing and off for the Clone and Docker pickers', () => {
+    expect(pickerOptions('openLinkCasePathPicker')).toContain('allowNewFolder: true');
     for (const other of ['openDockerWorkspacePathPicker', 'openDockerWorkdirPicker', 'openCloneCasePathPicker']) {
-      expect(block(other), other).not.toContain('allowNewFolder');
+      expect(pickerOptions(other), other).not.toContain('allowNewFolder');
     }
   });
+
+  it('lets an error wrap: the status line has no other way to show the rest of a long refusal', () => {
+    const start = stylesCss.indexOf('.path-picker-status.error {');
+    expect(start).toBeGreaterThan(-1);
+    expect(stylesCss.slice(start, stylesCss.indexOf('}', start))).toContain('white-space: normal');
+  });
 });