diff --git a/lib/src/bones_api_entity_db_object_directory.dart b/lib/src/bones_api_entity_db_object_directory.dart
index 86283ea..daab98a 100644
--- a/lib/src/bones_api_entity_db_object_directory.dart
+++ b/lib/src/bones_api_entity_db_object_directory.dart
@@ -749,14 +749,18 @@ class DBObjectDirectoryAdapter
     return _finishOperation(op, id, preFinish);
   }
 
-  Future<void> _saveObject(
-    String table,
-    Object? id,
-    Map<String, dynamic> obj,
-  ) async {
+  /// Writes synchronously, and must stay synchronous.
+  ///
+  /// Every reader in this adapter checks the filesystem synchronously
+  /// ([Directory.listSync], [File.existsSync]), so an asynchronous write would
+  /// let a store return before its object is visible: a `store` immediately
+  /// followed by a `selectAll`/`selectByID` could miss it, and
+  /// [_doSelectAllImpl] would silently drop it (a not-yet-written file reads
+  /// back as `null`, which `resolveAllNotNull` discards).
+  void _saveObject(String table, Object? id, Map<String, dynamic> obj) {
     var file = _resolveObjectFile(table, id);
     var enc = dart_convert.json.encode(obj);
-    await file.writeAsString(enc);
+    file.writeAsStringSync(enc);
   }
 
   Future<Map<String, dynamic>?> _readObject(String table, Object? id) async {
diff --git a/test/bones_api_entity_db_directory_test.dart b/test/bones_api_entity_db_directory_test.dart
index 304a6e2..972f88b 100644
--- a/test/bones_api_entity_db_directory_test.dart
+++ b/test/bones_api_entity_db_directory_test.dart
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 @TestOn('vm')
 @Tags(['entities'])
-@Timeout(Duration(seconds: 30))
+@Timeout(Duration(seconds: 60))
 import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:typed_data';
 
 import 'package:bones_api/bones_api_db_directory.dart';
 import 'package:bones_api/bones_api_test.dart';
 import 'package:test/test.dart';
 
 import 'bones_api_entity_db_tests_base.dart';
+import 'bones_api_test_entities.dart';
 
 class MemoryTestConfig extends APITestConfigDBSQLMemory {
   MemoryTestConfig()
@@ -23,6 +25,78 @@ Future<void> main() async {
   await _runTest(false, false);
   await _runTest(true, true);
   await _runTest(false, true);
+
+  _runStoreVisibilityTest();
+}
+
+/// REGRESSION: `DBObjectDirectoryAdapter._saveObject` used to be `async`, and
+/// `doInsert`/`doUpdate` dropped its `Future`. Since every reader in that
+/// adapter inspects the filesystem synchronously, a `store` could return
+/// before its object was on disk — and `selectAll` would then *silently omit*
+/// it, because a not-yet-written file reads back as `null` and is discarded by
+/// `resolveAllNotNull`.
+///
+/// That is what made `Pagination [objectAdapter]` flaky on CI: entries went
+/// missing from the result, and which ones varied per run. Confirmed by adding
+/// a 30ms delay before the (un-awaited) write, which reproduces that failure
+/// exactly.
+///
+/// Note this test only *fails* where the write is slow enough to lose the
+/// race — it does not on a fast local disk. It is kept as a cheap statement of
+/// the invariant; `Pagination [objectAdapter]` remains the sensitive guard.
+void _runStoreVisibilityTest() {
+  group('DBObjectDirectoryAdapter', () {
+    test('a stored object is immediately visible', () async {
+      var tempDir = Directory.systemTemp.createTempSync(
+        'bones_api_tests_object_dir_visibility',
+      );
+
+      var provider = createEntityRepositoryProvider2(
+        true,
+        (p, dbPort, dbConfig) =>
+            DBObjectDirectoryAdapter(tempDir, parentRepositoryProvider: p),
+        0,
+        null,
+      );
+
+      addTearDown(() {
+        provider.close();
+        try {
+          tempDir.deleteSync(recursive: true);
+        } catch (_) {}
+      });
+
+      await provider.ensureInitialized();
+
+      var photoRepo = provider.photoAPIRepository;
+
+      // Big enough to give a slow filesystem a chance to lose the race:
+      var data = Uint8List(512 * 1024);
+
+      var ids = <String>[];
+
+      for (var i = 1; i <= 4; ++i) {
+        var id = 'PG-SYNC-0$i';
+        ids.add(id);
+
+        expect(await photoRepo.store(Photo.fromData(data, id: id)), equals(id));
+
+        expect(
+          await photoRepo.selectByID(id),
+          isNotNull,
+          reason: '`$id` not readable right after `store`',
+        );
+      }
+
+      var all = await photoRepo.selectAll();
+
+      expect(
+        all.map((e) => e.id).where(ids.contains).toList()..sort(),
+        equals(ids),
+        reason: '`selectAll` dropped a stored object',
+      );
+    });
+  });
 }
 
 Future<bool> _runTest(bool useReflection, bool populateSource) {