diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
index 4ab3982607..f8022a3593 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/control.rs
@@ -583,7 +583,8 @@ fn is_base64(s: &str) -> bool {
 
 /// Writes each `from` text of the rewrite's pairs as its `to` text in every string and key of `v`, as
 /// [`replace_text`] does. Encoded file data, a base64 string under a key of [`BASE64_FIELDS`], stays
-/// as it is.
+/// as it is. A rewritten key that reads the same as another key of its object takes ` (2)`, ` (3)`
+/// and so on; a key that is not rewritten keeps its name.
 fn replace_in_value(v: &mut Value, r: &Rewrite) {
     match v {
         Value::String(s) => {
@@ -593,13 +594,30 @@ fn replace_in_value(v: &mut Value, r: &Rewrite) {
         }
         Value::Array(items) => items.iter_mut().for_each(|item| replace_in_value(item, r)),
         Value::Object(fields) => {
+            // The keys that stay are written first, so a rewritten key that reads as one of them, or
+            // as another rewritten key, is the one numbered and no field is lost.
+            let mut rewritten = Vec::new();
             for (key, mut item) in std::mem::take(fields) {
                 if BASE64_FIELDS.contains(&key.as_str()) && item.as_str().is_some_and(is_base64) {
                     fields.insert(key, item);
                     continue;
                 }
                 replace_in_value(&mut item, r);
-                fields.insert(replace_text(&key, r).unwrap_or(key), item);
+                match replace_text(&key, r) {
+                    Some(written) => rewritten.push((written, item)),
+                    None => {
+                        fields.insert(key, item);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            for (written, item) in rewritten {
+                let mut key = written.clone();
+                let mut n = 2;
+                while fields.contains_key(&key) {
+                    key = format!("{written} ({n})");
+                    n += 1;
+                }
+                fields.insert(key, item);
             }
         }
         _ => {}
@@ -681,6 +699,10 @@ impl<'a> Found<'a> {
             match begins_known_id(text, at, end, r) {
                 Some(len) => self.taken.push(span(at, at + len)),
                 None => {
+                    // A `file:` URL of the path is replaced whole, so no `file://<name>` is left that
+                    // would name a host, unless part of its scheme was taken already.
+                    let url = span(url_start(text, at, from), end).0;
+                    let start = if self.taken.iter().any(|&(a, b)| url < b && a < stop) { start } else { url };
                     self.taken.push((start, stop));
                     self.cuts.push((start, stop, to));
                 }
@@ -689,6 +711,26 @@ impl<'a> Found<'a> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Where a `file:` URL that holds `from`, an absolute path found at `at` in `text`, begins: `at` less
+/// the `file:` before it, with `//` and a host (`localhost`, another host or none) between them, in any
+/// case of its letters; before a drive, the host is followed by a `/` too. `at` when no such URL holds it.
+fn url_start(text: &str, at: usize, from: &str) -> usize {
+    let drive = matches!(from.as_bytes(), [drive, b':', ..] if drive.is_ascii_alphabetic());
+    if !from.starts_with('/') && !drive {
+        return at;
+    }
+    let Some(before) = text.get(..at) else { return at };
+    let Some(scheme) = before.to_ascii_lowercase().rfind("file:") else { return at };
+    let rest = &before[scheme + "file:".len()..];
+    let host = |h: &str| h.chars().all(|c| c.is_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' | '[' | ']' | '%'));
+    let holds = if drive {
+        rest.strip_prefix("//").and_then(|r| r.strip_suffix('/')).is_some_and(host)
+    } else {
+        rest.is_empty() || rest.strip_prefix("//").is_some_and(host)
+    };
+    if holds { scheme } else { at }
+}
+
 /// `text` with its `%XX` escapes decoded, and for each byte of the decoded text the range of `text`
 /// it was read from. A decoded byte that is not part of UTF-8 text is read as U+FFFD.
 fn decoded_with_spans(text: &str) -> Option<(String, Vec<(usize, usize)>)> {
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/control/tests.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/control/tests.rs
index 0b19350f6f..babc710067 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/control/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/control/tests.rs
@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ fn a_reply_keeps_a_hidden_path_only_inside_a_known_library_id() {
 }
 
 /// With matching in any case (as on Windows), a hidden path written in other letter cases is hidden
-/// too; a path in a `file:` URL with `%XX` escapes is hidden on every platform.
+/// too; a path in a `file:` URL with `%XX` escapes is hidden on every platform, the whole URL shown as
+/// the file name.
 #[test]
 fn a_reply_hides_a_path_in_any_case_and_escaped() {
     let hidden = hiding(&[("loaded/C:/Libs/My Swatches/b.svg", "loaded/b.svg")], &[]);
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ fn a_reply_hides_a_path_in_any_case_and_escaped() {
     let pairs = super::hidden_text(&hidden);
     let rewrite = super::Rewrite { pairs, hiding: &hidden, fold: true };
     super::replace_in_value(&mut reply, &rewrite);
-    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "from b.svg and file:///b.svg", "{reply}");
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "from b.svg and b.svg", "{reply}");
     // Two libraries whose paths differ only in letter case keep their own ids.
     let two = hiding(&[("loaded//libs/b.svg", "loaded/b.svg"), ("loaded//libs/B.svg", "loaded/B.svg")], &[]);
     let mut reply = json!({"error": "x /libs/B.svg y /libs/b.svg z /LIBS/b.svg"});
@@ -112,11 +113,22 @@ fn a_reply_hides_a_path_in_any_case_and_escaped() {
     assert_eq!(reply["error"], "LOADED//LIBS/IN/A.SVG", "{reply}");
     let mut reply = json!({"error": "file:///C:/Libs/My%20Swatches/b.svg"});
     hide_under_a_root("escaped", &mut reply, &hidden);
-    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "file:///b.svg", "{reply}");
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "b.svg", "{reply}");
     let hidden = hiding(&[("loaded//libs/caf\u{e9}/b.svg", "loaded/b.svg")], &[]);
     let mut reply = json!({"error": "file:///libs/caf%C3%a9/b.svg and file:///libs%2Fcaf%c3%A9%2Fb.svg?next=%2Fdocs&x=%FF at 100%25"});
     hide_under_a_root("escaped-mixed", &mut reply, &hidden);
-    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "file://b.svg and file://b.svg?next=%2Fdocs&x=%FF at 100%25", "{reply}");
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "b.svg and b.svg?next=%2Fdocs&x=%FF at 100%25", "{reply}");
+    // A `file:` URL without escapes is replaced whole too, with `localhost` or another host.
+    let mut reply = json!({"error": "file:///libs/caf\u{e9}/b.svg and FILE://localhost/libs/caf%C3%A9/b.svg"});
+    hide_under_a_root("plain-url", &mut reply, &hidden);
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "b.svg and b.svg", "{reply}");
+    let mut reply = json!({"error": "file://remote/libs/caf\u{e9}/b.svg; file:/libs/caf\u{e9}/b.svg; file: x/libs/caf\u{e9}/b.svg"});
+    hide_under_a_root("other-host", &mut reply, &hidden);
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "b.svg; b.svg; file: xb.svg", "{reply}");
+    let hidden = hiding(&[("loaded///host/share/c.svg", "loaded/c.svg")], &[]);
+    let mut reply = json!({"error": "file://host/share/c.svg, file:////host/share/c.svg, file://localhost//host/share/c.svg"});
+    hide_under_a_root("host-url", &mut reply, &hidden);
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "c.svg, c.svg, c.svg", "{reply}");
 }
 
 /// A path a failed request sent takes the place of a hidden library's id for the same path, written
@@ -263,6 +275,19 @@ fn a_reply_replaces_each_hidden_text_once() {
     let mut reply = json!({"error": "file:///art/in%20work/a.svg"});
     hide_under_a_root("escaped-readable", &mut reply, &hidden);
     assert_eq!(reply["error"], "file:///art/in%20work/a.svg", "{reply}");
+    // A URL whose scheme another hidden path took already is cut at its path.
+    let hidden = hiding(&[("loaded//a", "loaded/a"), ("loaded/file", "loaded/file")], &[]);
+    let mut reply = json!({"error": "file:///a"});
+    hide_under_a_root("scheme-taken", &mut reply, &hidden);
+    assert_eq!(reply["error"], "file://a", "{reply}");
+    // Keys that come to read the same keep every field; a key that is not rewritten keeps its name.
+    let hidden = hiding(&[("loaded//out/a.svg", "loaded/a.svg")], &[]);
+    let mut reply = json!({"result": {"a.svg": 1, "file:///out/a.svg": 2, "/out/a.svg": 3}});
+    hide_under_a_root("same-keys", &mut reply, &hidden);
+    assert_eq!(reply["result"]["a.svg"], 1, "{reply}");
+    let mut values: Vec<_> = reply["result"].as_object().map(|o| o.values().filter_map(Value::as_u64).collect()).unwrap_or_default();
+    values.sort_unstable();
+    assert_eq!(values, [1, 2, 3], "{reply}");
 }
 
 /// A library saved with another platform's absolute path is hidden, also when the working folder is
diff --git a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
index 073cefbd82..0ed949edf5 100644
--- a/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
+++ b/crates/ui-egui/src/tests/automation.rs
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ fn a_screenshot_reply_hides_paths_like_any_reply() {
 }
 
 /// A reply whose only trace of a hidden library's path is a `file:` URL with every separator escaped
-/// shows the file name.
+/// shows the file name alone.
 #[test]
 fn a_reply_hides_a_path_with_escaped_separators() {
     let (mut app, tx, base) = confined("escaped-separators");
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ fn a_reply_hides_a_path_with_escaped_separators() {
     app.ui.color_guide_limit = format!("loaded/{path}");
     app.ui.status = format!("from file:{}", path.replace('/', "%2F").replace('\\', "%5C"));
     let r = request(&mut app, &tx, "test.status", json!({}));
-    assert_eq!(r["result"], "from file:b.svg", "{r}");
+    assert_eq!(r["result"], "from b.svg", "{r}");
     let _ = std::fs::remove_dir_all(base);
 }
 
diff --git a/docs/mcp.md b/docs/mcp.md
index 03bb0b9665..faae559e61 100644
--- a/docs/mcp.md
+++ b/docs/mcp.md
@@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ the suite) keep the agent to the folders you give it:
   path as the file name in every string and key, the status text (`ui.status`), dialogs, the command palette query
   (`ui.palette_query`), a script's report (`scriptReport`), a screenshot's reply and the error from an internal
   fault included, for the libraries hidden before the request ran and after it. The path is also matched with `%XX` escapes as a `file:`
-  URL writes it, and on Windows in any case of its letters. A hidden id or path stays only where it begins
+  URL writes it, and on Windows in any case of its letters; a `file:` URL of an absolute path is shown as the file
+  name alone, without `file:` or its host. A hidden id or path stays only where it begins
   another loaded library's whole id with no `.` or `..` part, so a readable library's id that begins with a hidden one stays. A reply also shows a path outside the
   read roots that the request sent by its file name, whether or not a library was loaded from it and whether the
   request succeeded or failed, so that the reply reads the same either way. The one exception is the `path`