diff --git a/install.py b/install.py
index 60f49e22..07b512e6 100644
--- a/install.py
+++ b/install.py
@@ -10165,6 +10165,10 @@ class TuiState:
         self.check_summary: dict | None = None
         # The saves event of the check: the files that go to the save folder.
         self.saves: dict | None = None
+        # The same of the confirm or preview run, and of the install: a
+        # choice of systems can leave the save file out, or keep it.
+        self.dry_saves: dict | None = None
+        self.done_saves: dict | None = None
         # The confirm screen waits for A even when the plan is unchanged:
         # it was opened by Space, which never installs by itself.
         self.must_confirm: bool = False
@@ -10722,7 +10726,9 @@ def _start_run(state: TuiState, run: str) -> list[tuple]:
         state.checked_flags = tui_flags(state)
     elif run in ("confirm", "preview"):
         state.dry, state.dry_files, state.dry_summary = None, [], None
+        state.dry_saves = None
     else:
+        state.done_saves = None
         state.download = state.progress = state.reading = None
         state.samples, state.local_dests, state.network = [], {}, 0
         state.finished, state.summary, state.code, state.stopping = [], None, None, False
@@ -11365,6 +11371,10 @@ def _take_event(state: TuiState, event: dict) -> None:
         state.unreadable.append(event)
     elif kind == "saves" and state.run == "check":
         state.saves = event
+    elif kind == "saves" and state.run in ("confirm", "preview"):
+        state.dry_saves = event
+    elif kind == "saves" and state.run == "install":
+        state.done_saves = event
     elif kind == "found" and state.run == "install":
         state.local_dests[event["dest"]] = (event["folder"], event["reason"])
     elif state.run == "check":
@@ -11725,8 +11735,9 @@ def _plan_lines(check: dict, dest: Path | None, state: TuiState) -> list:
         lines.append("You cannot write to this folder: choose another one.")
     lines.append(f"{check['present']} in place, {check['missing']} missing, "
                  f"{wrong} wrong {'copy' if wrong == 1 else 'copies'}")
-    if check is state.check:
-        lines += [_styled(line, "path") for line in _saves_lines(state)]
+    saves = (state.saves if check is state.check
+             else state.dry_saves if check is state.dry else None)
+    lines += [_styled(line, "path") for line in _saves_lines(state, saves)]
     found_in = _retroarch_config_at(dest) if dest is not None else None
     if found_in:
         lines.append(_styled(f"Named by {_short_path(Path(found_in[0]), state.home)}", "path"))
@@ -11764,16 +11775,17 @@ def _plan_lines(check: dict, dest: Path | None, state: TuiState) -> list:
     return lines[:2] + offline_lines + lines[2:]
 
 
-def _saves_lines(state: TuiState) -> list[str]:
+def _saves_lines(state: TuiState, saves: dict | None) -> list[str]:
     """Where the files read from the frontend's save directory go: a second
-    folder this run writes to, named before anything is written."""
-    if not state.saves or not state.saves.get("files"):
+    folder this run writes to, named before anything is written. saves is
+    the event of the run the screen shows."""
+    if not saves or not saves.get("files"):
         return []
     name = display_name(state.platform) if state.platform else "the frontend"
-    count = state.saves["files"]
+    count = saves["files"]
     return [f"{_plural(count, 'file')} read from {name}'s save directory "
             f"{'goes' if count == 1 else 'go'} to "
-            f"{_short_path(Path(state.saves['folder']), state.home)}"]
+            f"{_short_path(Path(saves['folder']), state.home)}"]
 
 
 def _unplaced_lines(summary: dict | None, state: TuiState) -> list[str]:
@@ -12241,7 +12253,7 @@ def tui_outcome(state: TuiState) -> tuple[str, list[str]]:
         lines.append(sources)
     lines.append(f"BIOS folder: {state.dest}")
     if installed + up_to_date:
-        lines += _saves_lines(state)
+        lines += _saves_lines(state, state.done_saves)
     if space:
         lines.append("Free some space, or run again and choose another folder.")
     causes: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
diff --git a/tests/test_install_tui.py b/tests/test_install_tui.py
index 76ad6e34..a3adb6f4 100644
--- a/tests/test_install_tui.py
+++ b/tests/test_install_tui.py
@@ -2778,6 +2778,50 @@ class Crash(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertNotIn("Traceback", err.getvalue() + out.getvalue())
 
 
+class TheSaveFolderLineFollowsTheChoice(unittest.TestCase):
+    """The save-folder line was the check's: with the system owning the
+    save file unticked, the result named a folder nothing was written to,
+    and kept, the Confirm screen did not name it."""
+
+    SAVES = {"event": "saves", "platform": "retroarch", "files": 1,
+             "folder": "/home/user/MySaves/<core>"}
+    LINE = "1 file read from RetroArch's save directory goes to ~/MySaves/<core>"
+
+    def said(self, lines) -> str:
+        return " ".join(" ".join(lines).split())
+
+    def run_to_result(self, confirm_saves: bool, install_saves: bool) -> install.TuiState:
+        state = checked_state()
+        state.saves = dict(self.SAVES)
+        state.must_confirm = True
+        state.stack.append("confirm")
+        install._start_run(state, "confirm")
+        dry = {**CHECK, "files": 3, "missing": 3, "wrong_hash": 0}
+        for event in [*([self.SAVES] if confirm_saves else []), dry]:
+            install.tui_receive(state, ("event", state.run_id, event))
+        install.tui_receive(state, ("ended", state.run_id, 1, []))
+        self.confirm = self.said(install.tui_view(state, 200, 40))
+        install._start_run(state, "install")
+        summary = {"event": "summary", "mode": "install", "installed": 3, "up_to_date": 0,
+                   "pending": 0, "failed": [], "skipped": [], "left_out": [], "kept": [],
+                   "interrupted": False}
+        for event in [*([self.SAVES] if install_saves else []), summary]:
+            install.tui_receive(state, ("event", state.run_id, event))
+        install.tui_receive(state, ("ended", state.run_id, 0, []))
+        return state
+
+    def test_unticked_it_is_named_nowhere(self):
+        state = self.run_to_result(confirm_saves=False, install_saves=False)
+        self.assertNotIn("save directory", self.confirm)
+        self.assertEqual(state.screen, "result")
+        self.assertNotIn("save directory", self.said(install.tui_outcome(state)[1]))
+
+    def test_kept_the_confirm_screen_and_the_result_name_it(self):
+        state = self.run_to_result(confirm_saves=True, install_saves=True)
+        self.assertIn(self.LINE, self.confirm)
+        self.assertIn(self.LINE, self.said(install.tui_outcome(state)[1]))
+
+
 @unittest.skipIf(os.name == "nt" or os.geteuid() == 0,
                  "a folder without search permission is POSIX")
 class AFolderThisUserCannotOpen(unittest.TestCase):