diff --git a/system-config/nfs-self-heal/nfs-mount-heal.sh b/system-config/nfs-self-heal/nfs-mount-heal.sh
index 0dd6de3..037aaa8 100644
--- a/system-config/nfs-self-heal/nfs-mount-heal.sh
+++ b/system-config/nfs-self-heal/nfs-mount-heal.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ alert() {
 healthy() {
   local testdir="$1"
   local f
-  f=$(timeout 10 find "$testdir" -maxdepth 3 -type f -print -quit 2>/dev/null) || return 1
+  # No -maxdepth: -quit stops at the first match via depth-first search,
+  # so this is fast regardless of tree depth. A maxdepth that's too
+  # shallow for the actual file depth (e.g. immich's thumbs/<uuid>/XX/YY/
+  # file is 4 levels deep) makes find exhaust a huge fan-out with no
+  # match and time out -- a false positive, not real staleness (hit in
+  # production 2026-08-25, 3 spurious remounts in 15 min).
+  f=$(timeout 10 find "$testdir" -type f -print -quit 2>/dev/null) || return 1
   [ -n "$f" ] || return 1
   timeout 10 cat "$f" > /dev/null 2>&1
 }