diff --git a/docs/data-model.md b/docs/data-model.md
index 3c0f9bdd..d04cc2f8 100644
--- a/docs/data-model.md
+++ b/docs/data-model.md
@@ -499,9 +499,15 @@ No document Solid Memo names has any.
   and `isDraftDocument` in
   [deckPlace.ts](../packages/solid/src/deckPlace.ts)).
 - **An older document that doesn't say so** (from an earlier version, a
-  repair or a copy) is the deck's in the instance's own folder, unless
-  that folder is the root of a pod or a storage (typed `pim:Storage`).
-  There the next write states it. One that names any other catalog's
+  repair or a copy) is the deck's in the instance's own folder. That
+  folder isn't the instance's own when it's the root of a pod or a
+  storage, or a folder above one. Such a root is one of the user's
+  storages (as above), which a server may leave untyped, or a root the
+  server shows (typed `pim:Storage`, or named by a Linked Web Storage
+  server). In the instance's own folder the next write states it. When
+  the profile can't be read, a write fails and can be retried. The data
+  check and a removal then read the document, and take it for unclaimed
+  unless it says it's the deck's. One that names any other catalog's
   entry (such as a nested instance's) isn't the deck's: the app never
   adds a second owner on its own, and refuses the write
   (`deckDocumentUnclaimed`). The data check doesn't read a document in
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.test.ts b/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.test.ts
index 7bea5d95..e50812ec 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.test.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.test.ts
@@ -1074,6 +1074,85 @@ describe("an instance at the pod's root, laid out flat", () => {
     ).resolves.toEqual([]);
   });
 
+  describe("on a server that holds the pods of many on one origin and types none of their roots", () => {
+    const pod = `${ROOT}alice/`;
+    const SECRET = `<#entry> <https://example.org/says> "secret" .`;
+    const at = (instance: string, document = DIARY) => ({
+      url: `${instance}catalog.ttl#deck-1`,
+      title: { en: "Spanish" },
+      cardsDocumentUrl: document,
+      reviewsDocumentUrl: document,
+    });
+
+    /** A guard over a server that types no folder and holds `documents` (address to Turtle), each request kept in `asked`. */
+    function untyped(
+      userStorages: () => Promise<readonly string[]>,
+      documents: Record<string, string> = { [DIARY]: SECRET },
+    ) {
+      const asked: string[] = [];
+      const fetch = (async (input, init) => {
+        const method = init?.method ?? "GET";
+        asked.push(`${method} ${String(input)}`);
+        const body = documents[String(input)];
+        if (method === "HEAD" || body === undefined) return new Response(null, { status: 200 });
+        return new Response(body, { headers: { "Content-Type": "text/turtle", ETag: '"e1"' } });
+      }) as typeof globalThis.fetch;
+      return { guard: createDeckDocumentGuard(fetch, userStorages), asked };
+    }
+
+    it("never marks an older document as a deck's by itself at a pod's root the user's storages name", async () => {
+      const diary = await datasetOfTurtle(DIARY, SECRET);
+      // However the storage is spelled: host case, default port, no trailing slash.
+      for (const storage of [pod, "https://POD.example:443/alice"]) {
+        const { guard, asked } = untyped(async () => [storage]);
+        await expect(guard.standing(at(pod), DIARY, diary)).resolves.toBe("unclaimed");
+        await expect(guard.writable(at(pod), DIARY, diary)).rejects.toMatchObject({
+          code: "deckDocumentUnclaimed",
+        });
+        await expect(guard.removal(at(pod), DIARY)).resolves.toBe("unclaimed");
+        await expect(guard.unclaimed(at(pod))).resolves.toEqual([DIARY]);
+        // The user's storages decide it: the folder is never asked.
+        expect(asked.filter((one) => one.startsWith("HEAD"))).toEqual([]);
+      }
+    });
+
+    it("never marks one as a deck's in a folder above the user's storage either", async () => {
+      const diary = await datasetOfTurtle(DIARY, SECRET);
+      const { guard } = untyped(async () => [pod]);
+      const above = `${ROOT}pods/`;
+      const inside = `${above}alice/private/diary.ttl`;
+      const read = await datasetOfTurtle(inside, `<#entry> <https://example.org/says> "x" .`);
+      const nested = untyped(async () => [`${above}alice/`]);
+      await expect(nested.guard.standing(at(above, inside), inside, read)).resolves.toBe(
+        "unclaimed",
+      );
+      // An instance in its own folder in the user's pod still marks an older document as the deck's.
+      const own = `${pod}memo/`;
+      const mine = `${own}decks/deck-1.ttl`;
+      const older = await datasetOfTurtle(mine, cardTurtle("card-1", "uno"));
+      await expect(guard.standing(at(own, mine), mine, older)).resolves.toBe("adoptable");
+      await expect(guard.removal(at(own, mine), mine)).resolves.toBe("deletable");
+      await expect(guard.unclaimed(at(own, mine))).resolves.toEqual([]);
+      await expect(guard.standing(at(pod), DIARY, diary)).resolves.toBe("unclaimed");
+    });
+
+    it("leaves an older document no deck's when the user's storages cannot be found, and refuses a write for now", async () => {
+      const own = `${pod}memo/`;
+      const mine = `${own}decks/deck-1.ttl`;
+      const older = await datasetOfTurtle(mine, cardTurtle("card-1", "uno"));
+      const { guard } = untyped(() => Promise.reject(new Error("profile unreadable")), {
+        [mine]: cardTurtle("card-1", "uno"),
+      });
+      await expect(guard.standing(at(own, mine), mine, older)).resolves.toBe("unclaimed");
+      await expect(guard.writable(at(own, mine), mine, older)).rejects.toMatchObject({
+        code: "cannotCheck",
+        vars: { url: own, status: 0 },
+      });
+      await expect(guard.removal(at(own, mine), mine)).resolves.toBe("unclaimed");
+      await expect(guard.unclaimed(at(own, mine))).resolves.toEqual([mine]);
+    });
+  });
+
   it("asks again a folder whose storage description can't be read", async () => {
     const p = await pod();
     let heads = 0;
diff --git a/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.ts b/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.ts
index f0c65141..343d56f3 100644
--- a/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.ts
+++ b/packages/solid/src/deckPlace.ts
@@ -177,10 +177,25 @@ export function createDeckDocumentGuard(
 
   /**
    * Whether the folder is an instance's own: not a pod's root (`/`), nor
-   * a storage's (isStorageRoot), which hold the user's other data too.
+   * a storage's root or a folder above one, which hold the user's other
+   * data too. A storage's root is one of the user's storages
+   * (userStorages), which a server that holds many users' pods on one
+   * origin may leave untyped, or one the server shows (isStorageRoot).
+   * A storage list the pod does not answer for leaves it not shown to
+   * be: `lenient`, so the instance's documents are read and kept as
+   * they are; otherwise cannotCheck, so that a write may be tried again.
    */
-  async function isDedicatedFolder(folder: string): Promise<boolean> {
-    return new URL(folder).pathname !== "/" && !(await isStorageRoot(folder));
+  async function isDedicatedFolder(folder: string, lenient: boolean): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (new URL(folder).pathname === "/") return false;
+    let storages: readonly string[];
+    try {
+      storages = await userStorages();
+    } catch {
+      if (lenient) return false;
+      throw new AppError("cannotCheck", { url: folder, status: 0 });
+    }
+    if (storages.some((storage) => isInFolder(ensureTrailingSlash(storage), folder))) return false;
+    return !(await isStorageRoot(folder));
   }
 
   /**
@@ -279,7 +294,7 @@ export function createDeckDocumentGuard(
     if (dataset !== null && ownsDocument(partOfOf(dataset, url), deck.url)) return "owned";
     if (dataset === null) return "adoptable";
     if (deckBackLinksOf(dataset, url).length > 0) return "unclaimed";
-    return (await isDedicatedFolder(instance)) ? "adoptable" : "unclaimed";
+    return (await isDedicatedFolder(instance, lenient)) ? "adoptable" : "unclaimed";
   }
 
   /**
@@ -299,7 +314,7 @@ export function createDeckDocumentGuard(
     const found: string[] = [];
     for (const url of [deck.cardsDocumentUrl, deck.reviewsDocumentUrl]) {
       if (found.some((other) => isSameUrl(other, url))) continue;
-      if (isDocumentIn(url, instance) && (await isDedicatedFolder(instance))) continue;
+      if (isDocumentIn(url, instance) && (await isDedicatedFolder(instance, true))) continue;
       if (await unclaimedAsRead([deck], url)) found.push(url);
     }
     return found;
@@ -383,7 +398,8 @@ export function createDeckDocumentGuard(
     async removal(deck: DeckPlace, url: string): Promise<"deletable" | "unclaimed" | "unreadable"> {
       const instance = instanceOf(deck);
       if (isDraftDocument(url)) return "unclaimed";
-      if (isDocumentIn(url, instance) && (await isDedicatedFolder(instance))) return "deletable";
+      if (isDocumentIn(url, instance) && (await isDedicatedFolder(instance, true)))
+        return "deletable";
       const dataset = await readToRemove(deck, url);
       if (dataset === UNREADABLE) return "unreadable";
       return (await standing(deck, url, dataset)) === "unclaimed" ? "unclaimed" : "deletable";