diff --git a/crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md b/crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md
index 74d3139..bcf541a 100644
--- a/crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Feeds, episodes, artwork and `.torrent` files are no longer fetched from internal addresses (loopback, the LAN, Docker's networks), redirects included, unless config.toml's `fetch_internal` lists them. Adding a feed could read what a service inside the network answered (#320).
 - HTTPS connections no longer trust certificates from emSign's distrusted intermediates, and certificate checks use constant-time comparisons: rustls-webpki, webpki-roots and ctutils are updated (#351).
 - A new install's `admin` gets a random password, written to `admin-password` beside config.toml and readable by iPX's user alone, or the one in `IPX_ADMIN_PASSWORD`. Every install began as admin / ipodderx, a password published in the README, and the log printed it (#321).
+- A show kept from a private OPML or Patreon list stays private, with the list's username and password, once the list is removed or left. It became public and was shared to the directory (#332).
 
 ## [1.4.0] - 2026-10-19
 
diff --git a/crates/ipx/src/main.rs b/crates/ipx/src/main.rs
index e460d35..131c6d3 100644
--- a/crates/ipx/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/ipx/src/main.rs
@@ -992,17 +992,17 @@ fn url_stem(url: &str) -> String {
 
 async fn rm(ctx: &Ctx, feed: &str) -> Result<()> {
     let mut cfg = ctx.edit_cfg().await;
-    if cfg.feeds.remove(feed).is_none() {
+    let Some(parent) = cfg.feeds.remove(feed) else {
         // Derived from an OPML: drop it here, though the subscription will list it again
         // on the next read unless the OPML itself goes.
         ctx.db.drop_managed(feed).await?;
         println!("removed {feed}; it came from an OPML subscription and may return on the next read");
         return Ok(());
-    }
+    };
     ctx.store_cfg(cfg).await?;
     // State and files stay: re-adding the feed should not re-download its back catalogue.
     println!("removed {feed}; downloads and history kept");
-    retire_group(ctx, feed).await?;
+    retire_group(ctx, feed, Some(&parent)).await?;
     Ok(())
 }
 
@@ -1187,15 +1187,17 @@ async fn clean_directory(ctx: &Ctx) -> Result<()> {
     }
     let mut cfg = ctx.edit_cfg().await;
     // Every one removed, so not `any`, which would stop at the first.
-    let mut removed = false;
+    let mut removed = std::collections::HashMap::new();
     for id in &stale {
-        removed |= cfg.feeds.remove(id).is_some();
+        if let Some(f) = cfg.feeds.remove(id) {
+            removed.insert(id.clone(), f);
+        }
     }
-    if removed {
+    if !removed.is_empty() {
         ctx.store_cfg(cfg).await?;
     }
     for id in &stale {
-        retire_group(ctx, id).await?;
+        retire_group(ctx, id, removed.get(id)).await?;
         ctx.db.forget_feed(id).await?;
         tracing::info!(
             feed = id,
@@ -1479,13 +1481,13 @@ pub async fn leave(ctx: &Ctx, user_id: i64, id: &str) -> Result<()> {
     if cfg.feeds.get(id).is_some_and(|f| f.listed) {
         return Ok(());
     }
-    if cfg.feeds.remove(id).is_none() {
+    let Some(parent) = cfg.feeds.remove(id) else {
         // A derived feed: forget it here, though the OPML will list it again on the next
         // read unless you unsubscribe from the OPML itself.
         return ctx.db.drop_managed(id).await;
-    }
+    };
     ctx.store_cfg(cfg).await?;
-    retire_group(ctx, id).await
+    retire_group(ctx, id, Some(&parent)).await
 }
 
 /// Removes an account, leaving each of its feeds first as unsubscribing does. The foreign keys
@@ -1510,15 +1512,16 @@ pub async fn remove_user(ctx: &Ctx, user_id: i64) -> Result<()> {
 /// removed if nothing was downloaded, orphaned and kept otherwise. Called once the parent
 /// itself is removed, since `subscriptions()` would otherwise keep scanning them under a
 /// fallback policy meant for a feed with no parent at all. A feed promoted to config is not
-/// derived any more, so it is only unmanaged.
-pub async fn retire_group(ctx: &Ctx, parent_id: &str) -> Result<()> {
+/// derived any more, so it is only unmanaged. `parent` is the list's settings as they were before
+/// it was removed, None when that is no longer known.
+pub async fn retire_group(ctx: &Ctx, parent_id: &str, parent: Option<&config::Feed>) -> Result<()> {
     let cfg = ctx.cfg();
     for m in ctx.db.managed_feeds().await?.into_iter().filter(|m| m.group_id == parent_id) {
         if cfg.feeds.contains_key(&m.id) {
             // Scanned from its config entry and still read. Dropped as derived, its stored
             // entries would go with it: davewiner's 11 were promoted without being unmanaged.
             ctx.db.unmanage(&m.id).await?;
-        } else if promote_kept(ctx, &m).await? {
+        } else if promote_kept(ctx, &m, parent).await? {
             tracing::info!(feed = %m.id, "its list is gone but someone kept it; a feed of its own now");
         } else if ctx.db.downloaded_count(&m.id).await.unwrap_or(1) > 0 {
             ctx.db.set_orphaned(&m.id, true).await?;
@@ -1532,31 +1535,33 @@ pub async fn retire_group(ctx: &Ctx, parent_id: &str) -> Result<()> {
 /// Makes a feed from an OPML or Patreon list a feed of its own, for those who kept it (#280): a
 /// catalogue entry in no group, which the list no longer adds or takes away. Whoever had it only
 /// through the list, without keeping it, loses it, as they would have when the list dropped it.
-/// False, changing nothing, when nobody kept it.
-async fn promote_kept(ctx: &Ctx, m: &db::Managed) -> Result<bool> {
+/// False, changing nothing, when nobody kept it. `base` is the list's settings: most callers have
+/// removed the list from config by now, so they pass them.
+async fn promote_kept(ctx: &Ctx, m: &db::Managed, base: Option<&config::Feed>) -> Result<bool> {
     let subs = ctx.db.subscribers_of(&m.id).await?;
     if !subs.iter().any(|(_, kept)| *kept) {
         return Ok(false);
     }
     let mut cfg = ctx.edit_cfg().await;
-    // The list's own settings carry over while it is there; its folder and group do not.
-    let base = cfg.feeds.get(&m.group_id).cloned();
+    // The list's own settings carry over; its folder and group do not.
     cfg.feeds.entry(m.id.clone()).or_insert_with(|| config::Feed {
         url: m.url.clone(),
         folder: None,
         group: None,
-        media_types: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.media_types.clone()),
-        schedule: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.schedule.clone()),
-        keywords: base.as_ref().map(|p| p.keywords.clone()).unwrap_or_default(),
-        allow_explicit: base.as_ref().is_some_and(|p| p.allow_explicit),
-        auto_download: base.as_ref().is_none_or(|p| p.auto_download),
-        max_new_per_check: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.max_new_per_check),
-        username: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.username.clone()),
-        password: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.password.clone()),
-        password_env: base.as_ref().and_then(|p| p.password_env.clone()),
+        media_types: base.and_then(|p| p.media_types.clone()),
+        schedule: base.and_then(|p| p.schedule.clone()),
+        keywords: base.map(|p| p.keywords.clone()).unwrap_or_default(),
+        allow_explicit: base.is_some_and(|p| p.allow_explicit),
+        auto_download: base.is_none_or(|p| p.auto_download),
+        max_new_per_check: base.and_then(|p| p.max_new_per_check),
+        username: base.and_then(|p| p.username.clone()),
+        password: base.and_then(|p| p.password.clone()),
+        password_env: base.and_then(|p| p.password_env.clone()),
         category: None,
         listed: false,
-        private: base.as_ref().is_some_and(|p| p.private),
+        // Looked up after the list was removed, private was always false, and a private OPML's
+        // kept show went to the directory (#332). A list no longer known may have been private.
+        private: base.is_none_or(|p| p.private),
     });
     ctx.store_cfg(cfg).await?;
     ctx.db.unmanage(&m.id).await?;
@@ -1579,7 +1584,7 @@ async fn retire_stranded(ctx: &Ctx) -> Result<usize> {
     let stranded: std::collections::BTreeSet<&str> =
         before.iter().map(|m| m.group_id.as_str()).filter(|g| !cfg.feeds.contains_key(*g)).collect();
     for group in stranded {
-        retire_group(ctx, group).await?;
+        retire_group(ctx, group, None).await?;
     }
     Ok(before.len() - ctx.db.managed_feeds().await?.len())
 }
@@ -2135,11 +2140,12 @@ async fn sync_group(
     // Anything in this group the OPML no longer lists.
     let mut removed = 0;
     let mut kept = 0;
+    let parent = ctx.cfg().feeds.get(parent_id).cloned();
     for m in existing.iter().filter(|m| m.group_id == parent_id) {
         if listed.iter().any(|(_, u)| u == &m.url) {
             continue;
         }
-        if promote_kept(ctx, m).await? {
+        if promote_kept(ctx, m, parent.as_ref()).await? {
             kept += 1;
             tracing::info!(feed = %m.id, "dropped from the OPML but someone kept it; a feed of its own now");
             continue;
@@ -3065,7 +3071,7 @@ mod tests {
         ctx.db.record_enclosure("has-file", "g1", &enc).await.unwrap();
         ctx.db.mark_downloaded(&enc.url, std::path::Path::new("/downloads/ep.mp3"), 1).await.unwrap();
 
-        retire_group(&ctx, "parent").await.unwrap();
+        retire_group(&ctx, "parent", None).await.unwrap();
 
         let managed = ctx.db.managed_feeds().await.unwrap();
         assert!(!managed.iter().any(|m| m.id == "empty"), "nothing downloaded, so it is forgotten");
@@ -3076,7 +3082,7 @@ mod tests {
     #[tokio::test]
     async fn a_kept_feed_outlives_its_opml_for_whoever_kept_it() {
         let mut cfg = config::Config::default();
-        cfg.feeds.insert("opml".into(), feed());
+        cfg.feeds.insert("opml".into(), config::Feed { private: true, ..feed() });
         let ctx = Arc::new(test_ctx(cfg).await);
         let (me, you) = (
             ctx.db.create_user("me", None, false).await.unwrap(),
@@ -3097,7 +3103,7 @@ mod tests {
         let parent = ctx.cfg().feeds["opml"].clone();
         sync_group(&ctx, "opml", &parent, &[("b".into(), "http://x/b.xml".into())]).await.unwrap();
         let a = ctx.cfg().feeds.get("a").cloned().expect("a is in the catalogue");
-        assert_eq!((a.url.as_str(), a.group), ("http://x/a.xml", None));
+        assert_eq!((a.url.as_str(), a.group, a.private), ("http://x/a.xml", None, true));
         assert!(!ctx.db.managed_feeds().await.unwrap().iter().any(|m| m.id == "a"));
         assert!(ctx.db.subscription(me, "a").await.unwrap().is_some());
         assert!(ctx.db.subscription(you, "a").await.unwrap().is_none());
@@ -3108,7 +3114,8 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(ctx.db.managed_feeds().await.unwrap().iter().any(|m| m.id == "b"));
         // Once nobody reads it, b is mine alone, and yours goes with the OPML.
         leave(&ctx, you, "opml").await.unwrap();
-        assert!(ctx.cfg().feeds.get("b").is_some_and(|f| f.group.is_none()));
+        // Still private: the OPML is gone from config by the time b is promoted (#332).
+        assert!(ctx.cfg().feeds.get("b").is_some_and(|f| f.group.is_none() && f.private));
         assert!(ctx.db.subscription(me, "b").await.unwrap().is_some());
         assert!(ctx.db.subscription(you, "b").await.unwrap().is_none());
     }