diff --git a/FileDeduplicator.Test/DeduplicatorTests.cs b/FileDeduplicator.Test/DeduplicatorTests.cs
index f792498..f1a6318 100644
--- a/FileDeduplicator.Test/DeduplicatorTests.cs
+++ b/FileDeduplicator.Test/DeduplicatorTests.cs
@@ -432,4 +432,73 @@ public void DeletingAnEmptyGroupListIsANoOp()
 		Assert.IsEmpty(result.Errors);
 		Assert.IsEmpty(result.SkippedFiles);
 	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// A copy removed between the hash pass and grouping must not abort the run: the grouping
+	/// has to go on without it and still report the copies that remain.
+	/// </summary>
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void ACopyThatVanishedAfterHashingIsDroppedFromItsGroup()
+	{
+		// Arrange
+		using TempTree tree = new();
+		AbsoluteFilePath first = tree.Write("a.txt", "shared");
+		AbsoluteFilePath second = tree.Write("bb.txt", "shared");
+		AbsoluteFilePath vanishing = tree.Write("ccc.txt", "shared");
+		Dictionary<AbsoluteFilePath, string> hashes = FileHasher.HashFiles([first, second, vanishing]);
+
+		// Arrange -- something else removes it while the rest of a long hash pass runs
+		File.Delete(vanishing.WeakString);
+
+		// Act
+		IReadOnlyList<DuplicateGroup> duplicates = Duplicates(hashes);
+
+		// Assert
+		Assert.ContainsSingle(duplicates);
+		CollectionAssert.AreEquivalent(new[] { first, second }, duplicates[0].Files);
+		Assert.AreEqual("shared".Length, duplicates[0].FileSize);
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Whichever copy vanishes, including the one the group would have been sized from, a group
+	/// left with a single copy is no longer a duplicate group.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="vanishingIndex">Which of the two copies disappears.</param>
+	[TestMethod]
+	[DataRow(0)]
+	[DataRow(1)]
+	public void AGroupLeftWithOneCopyIsDropped(int vanishingIndex)
+	{
+		// Arrange
+		using TempTree tree = new();
+		AbsoluteFilePath[] copies = [tree.Write("a.txt", "shared"), tree.Write("bb.txt", "shared")];
+		Dictionary<AbsoluteFilePath, string> hashes = FileHasher.HashFiles(copies);
+		File.Delete(copies[vanishingIndex].WeakString);
+
+		// Act
+		IReadOnlyList<DuplicateGroup> duplicates = Duplicates(hashes);
+
+		// Assert
+		Assert.IsEmpty(duplicates);
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Stats sizes every file that hashed; one that has since disappeared contributes nothing
+	/// rather than aborting the report.
+	/// </summary>
+	[TestMethod]
+	public void TotalSizeSkipsAFileThatVanishedAfterHashing()
+	{
+		// Arrange
+		using TempTree tree = new();
+		AbsoluteFilePath kept = tree.Write("a.txt", "four");
+		AbsoluteFilePath vanishing = tree.Write("c.txt", "unrelated");
+		File.Delete(vanishing.WeakString);
+
+		// Act
+		long total = Deduplicator.TotalSize([kept, vanishing]);
+
+		// Assert
+		Assert.AreEqual("four".Length, total);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/FileDeduplicator/Deduplicator.cs b/FileDeduplicator/Deduplicator.cs
index e43b444..f7b8591 100644
--- a/FileDeduplicator/Deduplicator.cs
+++ b/FileDeduplicator/Deduplicator.cs
@@ -28,10 +28,71 @@ internal static Dictionary<string, List<AbsoluteFilePath>> GroupByHash(Dictionar
 		return groups;
 	}
 
-	internal static IReadOnlyList<DuplicateGroup> FindDuplicates(Dictionary<string, List<AbsoluteFilePath>> hashGroups) =>
-		[.. hashGroups
-			.Where(kvp => kvp.Value.Count > 1)
-			.Select(kvp => new DuplicateGroup(kvp.Key, kvp.Value))];
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Builds the duplicate groups from the hash groups, sizing each from the copies still on disk.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <remarks>
+	/// The hash pass can take minutes on a large tree, and the directories this is pointed at are
+	/// often live, so a file that hashed may be gone by now. A vanished copy is dropped rather than
+	/// allowed to abort the run, and a group it leaves with a single copy is no longer a group.
+	/// </remarks>
+	/// <param name="hashGroups">The files that hashed, grouped by hash.</param>
+	/// <returns>Every group that still has at least two copies.</returns>
+	internal static IReadOnlyList<DuplicateGroup> FindDuplicates(Dictionary<string, List<AbsoluteFilePath>> hashGroups)
+	{
+		List<DuplicateGroup> duplicates = [];
+
+		foreach (KeyValuePair<string, List<AbsoluteFilePath>> kvp in hashGroups.Where(kvp => kvp.Value.Count > 1))
+		{
+			// Each copy is sized exactly once, so the filter and the size it reports cannot disagree
+			// about a file that disappears between two reads.
+			(AbsoluteFilePath File, long Size)[] present = [.. kvp.Value
+				.Select(file => (File: file, Size: TryGetSize(file, out long size) ? size : (long?)null))
+				.Where(copy => copy.Size.HasValue)
+				.Select(copy => (copy.File, copy.Size!.Value))];
+
+			if (present.Length > 1)
+			{
+				duplicates.Add(new DuplicateGroup(kvp.Key, [.. present.Select(copy => copy.File)], present[0].Size));
+			}
+		}
+
+		return duplicates;
+	}
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Sums the sizes of the given files, counting nothing for one that is no longer there.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="files">The files to size.</param>
+	/// <returns>The total size in bytes of the files that could still be sized.</returns>
+	internal static long TotalSize(IEnumerable<AbsoluteFilePath> files) =>
+		files.Sum(file => TryGetSize(file, out long size) ? size : 0);
+
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Reads a file's size, tolerating a file that has disappeared or can no longer be reached.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="file">The file to size.</param>
+	/// <param name="size">The size in bytes, when it could be read.</param>
+	/// <returns><see langword="true"/> if the file is still there and its size was read.</returns>
+	private static bool TryGetSize(AbsoluteFilePath file, out long size)
+	{
+		try
+		{
+			size = new FileInfo(file.WeakString).Length;
+			return true;
+		}
+		catch (IOException)
+		{
+			// FileNotFoundException and DirectoryNotFoundException both derive from this.
+			size = 0;
+			return false;
+		}
+		catch (UnauthorizedAccessException)
+		{
+			size = 0;
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
 
 	internal static AbsoluteFilePath SelectFileToKeep(List<AbsoluteFilePath> duplicates) =>
 		duplicates.OrderBy(f => f.FileName.WeakString.Length).ThenBy(f => f.WeakString, StringComparer.Ordinal).First();
@@ -155,11 +216,11 @@ private static void Skip(AbsoluteFilePath file, string? reason, List<SkippedFile
 	}
 }
 
-internal sealed class DuplicateGroup(string hash, List<AbsoluteFilePath> files)
+internal sealed class DuplicateGroup(string hash, List<AbsoluteFilePath> files, long fileSize)
 {
 	internal string Hash { get; } = hash;
 	internal List<AbsoluteFilePath> Files { get; } = files;
-	internal long FileSize { get; } = new FileInfo(files[0].WeakString).Length;
+	internal long FileSize { get; } = fileSize;
 }
 
 internal sealed class DeduplicationResult(int deletedCount, long bytesReclaimed, List<string> errors, List<SkippedFile> skippedFiles)
diff --git a/FileDeduplicator/Verbs/Stats.cs b/FileDeduplicator/Verbs/Stats.cs
index cef01c6..04fe298 100644
--- a/FileDeduplicator/Verbs/Stats.cs
+++ b/FileDeduplicator/Verbs/Stats.cs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ internal override void Run(Stats options)
 		// Every count below is taken over the files that hashed. HashFiles drops a file it cannot
 		// read, so counting against the scanned list would report each one as a duplicate of nothing,
 		// and sizing it would throw if it had vanished since the scan.
-		long totalSize = fileHashes.Keys.Sum(f => new FileInfo(f.WeakString).Length);
+		long totalSize = Deduplicator.TotalSize(fileHashes.Keys);
 		int uniqueFiles = hashGroups.Count;
 		int duplicateFiles = fileHashes.Count - uniqueFiles;
 		int unreadableFiles = files.Count - fileHashes.Count;