diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor
index 2a496f67..033a6867 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor	
@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
             <MudChip T="string" Color="Color.Default" Variant="Variant.Filled">@string.Format(T("Skipped files: {0}"), this.TotalPermanentlySkippedFiles)</MudChip>
             <MudChip T="string" Color="Color.Error" Variant="Variant.Filled">@string.Format(T("Failed files: {0}"), this.TotalFailedFiles)</MudChip>
         </MudStack>
+        @if (this.IsWorkingThroughDataSources)
+        {
+            <MudText Typo="Typo.body2" Class="mt-2">
+                @string.Format(T("Data source {0} of {1} is being worked on. The others are waiting their turn."), this.CurrentDataSourceNumber, this.Statuses.Count)
+            </MudText>
+        }
     </MudPaper>
 
     @if (this.Statuses.Count == 0)
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor.cs
index 95bfb528..51f9d540 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Pages/Embeddings.razor.cs	
@@ -43,6 +43,19 @@ public partial class Embeddings : MSGComponentBase
 
     private int TotalPermanentlySkippedFiles => this.Statuses.Sum(status => status.PermanentlySkippedFiles);
 
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The chips above count files, which says nothing about how far the list of data sources itself
+    /// has come. While several of them wait their turn, this is the one line saying so. With a single
+    /// data source there is nothing to say: its own row already tells the whole story.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private bool IsWorkingThroughDataSources => this.Statuses.Count > 1 && this.Statuses.Any(status => status.State is DataSourceEmbeddingState.RUNNING or DataSourceEmbeddingState.QUEUED);
+
+    /// <remarks>
+    /// The one being worked on is the one after those which are done. A data source which needs
+    /// attention counts as done here: nothing is going to happen to it during this pass.
+    /// </remarks>
+    private int CurrentDataSourceNumber => Math.Min(this.Statuses.Count, this.Statuses.Count(status => status.State is DataSourceEmbeddingState.COMPLETED or DataSourceEmbeddingState.FAILED) + 1);
+
     protected override async Task OnInitializedAsync()
     {
         //
diff --git a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/Services/DataSourceEmbeddingService.cs b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/Services/DataSourceEmbeddingService.cs
index 0ca86c9e..c8646a2d 100644
--- a/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/Services/DataSourceEmbeddingService.cs	
+++ b/app/MindWork AI Studio/Tools/Services/DataSourceEmbeddingService.cs	
@@ -1164,6 +1164,31 @@ public sealed partial class DataSourceEmbeddingService(SettingsManager settingsM
             "Starting initial persisted hash check for {DataSourceCount} supported internal data source(s). Incomplete or failed local RAG embedding state will be retried during this pass. File watchers will be activated after this check completes.",
             supportedDataSources.Count);
 
+        //
+        // Every data source gets its row before the first run starts. This pass works through them
+        // one after the other, and re-indexing a large source takes its time: without this, the
+        // embeddings page would show the one source being worked on and nothing else, which reads
+        // as if the others were gone rather than waiting their turn. The queueing path does the
+        // same thing when it reserves a slot, which is why it never had this problem.
+        //
+        foreach (var dataSource in supportedDataSources)
+        {
+            if (this.statuses.TryGetValue(dataSource.Id, out var knownStatus) && knownStatus.State is DataSourceEmbeddingState.RUNNING)
+                continue;
+
+            this.statuses[dataSource.Id] = this.CreateStatus(
+                dataSource,
+                DataSourceEmbeddingState.QUEUED,
+                knownStatus?.TotalFiles ?? 0,
+                knownStatus?.IndexedFiles ?? 0,
+                knownStatus?.FailedFiles ?? 0,
+                failures: knownStatus?.Failures ?? [],
+                permanentlySkippedFiles: knownStatus?.PermanentlySkippedFiles ?? 0);
+        }
+
+        // One message for the whole list, rather than one per data source:
+        this.PublishStatusChanged();
+
         foreach (var dataSource in supportedDataSources)
         {
             token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();