diff --git a/core/downloads/album_bundle_dispatch.py b/core/downloads/album_bundle_dispatch.py
index 634c0e95..ef6b104f 100644
--- a/core/downloads/album_bundle_dispatch.py
+++ b/core/downloads/album_bundle_dispatch.py
@@ -173,7 +173,22 @@ def try_dispatch(
         )
     except Exception as exc:
         logger.exception("[Album Bundle] %s plugin raised: %s", mode, exc)
-        outcome = {'success': False, 'error': f'Plugin error: {exc}'}
+        # An OSError means an I/O step failed after the source already had the
+        # album — most importantly the staging dir not being writable (#760),
+        # but also any transient filesystem error. Treat it as fallback-eligible
+        # so we return to the per-track flow instead of hard-failing the whole
+        # batch (the #715 symptom: files download, then the batch fails).
+        # Programming errors (TypeError, KeyError, …) are NOT OSError and stay
+        # terminal, so genuine bugs still fail loudly. (requests' network
+        # exceptions also subclass OSError, but plugins normally catch those
+        # internally and return an outcome rather than raising; if one does
+        # surface here, falling back to per-track is still the safe choice.)
+        is_io_failure = isinstance(exc, OSError)
+        outcome = {
+            'success': False,
+            'error': f'Plugin error: {exc}',
+            'fallback': is_io_failure,
+        }
 
     if not outcome.get('success'):
         err = outcome.get('error', 'Album bundle download failed')
diff --git a/tests/test_album_bundle_dispatch.py b/tests/test_album_bundle_dispatch.py
index 5cafa065..b9ea5424 100644
--- a/tests/test_album_bundle_dispatch.py
+++ b/tests/test_album_bundle_dispatch.py
@@ -275,6 +275,26 @@ def test_dispatch_plugin_exception_treated_as_failure() -> None:
     assert 'network down' in state.failed_with
 
 
+def test_dispatch_staging_oserror_falls_back_to_per_track():
+    """A filesystem/staging failure (e.g. #760's PermissionError creating the
+    staging dir) means the album downloaded but couldn't be staged locally —
+    fall back to the per-track flow rather than hard-failing the whole batch."""
+    state = _FakeState()
+    plugin = MagicMock()
+    plugin.download_album_to_staging.side_effect = PermissionError(
+        "[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'storage/album_bundle_staging'")
+    result = try_dispatch(
+        batch_id='b1', is_album=True,
+        album_context={'name': 'Carnival'}, artist_context={'name': 'Some Artist'},
+        config_get=_config({'download_source.mode': 'soulseek'}),
+        plugin_resolver=lambda _name: plugin, state=state,
+    )
+    assert result is False                       # fell back; master continues per-track
+    assert state.failed_with == ''               # NOT hard-failed
+    assert state.fields['phase'] == 'analysis'
+    assert state.fields['album_bundle_state'] == 'fallback'
+
+
 def test_dispatch_strips_whitespace_from_names() -> None:
     """Trailing whitespace in batch context shouldn't fail the
     eligibility predicate AND should be cleaned before passing to