diff --git a/sync-server/src/app_state/database.rs b/sync-server/src/app_state/database.rs
index bdfc7427..41097925 100644
--- a/sync-server/src/app_state/database.rs
+++ b/sync-server/src/app_state/database.rs
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ impl Database {
                 device_id,
                 has_been_merged
             from latest_document_versions
-            where relative_path = ?
+            where relative_path = ? and is_deleted = false
             order by vault_update_id desc  -- `latest_document_versions` only contains a single latest version of each document, however,
                                            -- multiple documents can have the same `relative_path`, if they have been deleted. That's
                                            -- why we only care about the latest version of the document with the given relative path.