diff --git a/URLNotesGrabberCORE/Program.cs b/URLNotesGrabberCORE/Program.cs
index f39d6c0..1c81814 100644
--- a/URLNotesGrabberCORE/Program.cs
+++ b/URLNotesGrabberCORE/Program.cs
@@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ namespace URLNotesGrabberCORE
             if (args.Length == 0) //Traverse folder structure to add posts and thus blogs to DB
             {
                 int postsAdded = 0;
+                // This is the mode that actually gets run day to day, so the schema migration and
+                // the PostType backfill have to happen here too. They used to hang off --ingest,
+                // --output and friends only, which meant the untyped rows this traversal creates
+                // could sit unrepaired indefinitely while the one command everyone runs skipped
+                // the fix entirely. Idempotent, so paying it on every run costs nothing.
+                DataAccess.EnsureTTFileHelperColumnsExist();
                 try
                 {
                     DataAccess.EnableImportModePragmas();