diff --git a/thunar/thunar-io-jobs.c b/thunar/thunar-io-jobs.c
index 242400f4..eaaa7072 100644
--- a/thunar/thunar-io-jobs.c
+++ b/thunar/thunar-io-jobs.c
@@ -454,6 +454,9 @@ _thunar_io_jobs_unlink (ThunarJob  *job,
       if (thunar_g_file_is_root (lp->data))
         continue;
 
+      /* update progress information */
+      thunar_job_processing_file (THUNAR_JOB (job), lp);
+
 again:
       /* try to delete the file */
       if (g_file_delete (lp->data, exo_job_get_cancellable (EXO_JOB (job)), &err))
diff --git a/thunar/thunar-job.c b/thunar/thunar-job.c
index 2b2b3fff..867278ef 100644
--- a/thunar/thunar-job.c
+++ b/thunar/thunar-job.c
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ thunar_job_processing_file (ThunarJob *job,
       /* determine the number of files processed so far */
       for (lp = job->priv->total_files, n_processed = 0;
            lp != current_file;
-           lp = lp->next);
+           lp = lp->next, n_processed++);
 
       /* emit only if n_processed is a multiple of 8 */
       if ((n_processed % 8) == 0)