diff --git a/web/src/components/panels/FilesToPublish.vue b/web/src/components/panels/FilesToPublish.vue
index 8c5082fe6..0e3e90d7b 100644
--- a/web/src/components/panels/FilesToPublish.vue
+++ b/web/src/components/panels/FilesToPublish.vue
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ const deploymentStore = useDeploymentStore();
 const files = ref<QTreeNode[]>([]);
 const expanded = ref<string[]>([]);
 
-type FileInfo = Pick<DeploymentFile, 'size' | 'isEntrypoint' | 'exclusion'>;
+type FileInfo = Pick<DeploymentFile, 'size' | 'isEntrypoint' | 'exclusion' | 'isFile' >;
 
 const fileMap = ref(new Map<string, FileInfo>());
 
@@ -56,9 +56,14 @@ const selectedFileTotalSize = computed(() : string => {
 });
 
 const fileSummary = computed(() => {
-  const count = deploymentStore.files.length;
   const path = deploymentStore.deployment?.sourcePath;
 
+  // Calculate the number of files that are "files" (i.e., regular files, not directories, symlinks, etc.)
+  const count = deploymentStore.files
+    .map(file => fileMap.value.get(file))
+    .filter(info => info?.isFile)
+    .length;
+
   if (count) {
     return `${count} files selected from ${path} (total = ${selectedFileTotalSize.value})`;
   } else if (path) {
@@ -83,6 +88,7 @@ function populateFileMap(file: DeploymentFile) {
     size: file.size,
     isEntrypoint: file.isEntrypoint,
     exclusion: file.exclusion,
+    isFile: file.isFile
   };
   fileMap.value.set(file.id, info);
   file.files.forEach(populateFileMap);