diff --git a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
index c72798e7ea..b8374eaba9 100644
--- a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
+++ b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.cpp
@@ -12,50 +12,38 @@ namespace VFS
 {
 
     FileSystemArchive::FileSystemArchive(const std::filesystem::path& path)
-        : mBuiltIndex(false)
-        , mPath(path)
-    {
-    }
-
-    void FileSystemArchive::listResources(FileMap& out)
+        : mPath(path)
     {
-        if (!mBuiltIndex)
-        {
-            const auto str = mPath.u8string();
-            size_t prefix = str.size();
-
-            if (!mPath.empty() && str[prefix - 1] != '\\' && str[prefix - 1] != '/')
-                ++prefix;
-
-            for (const auto& i : std::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator(mPath))
-            {
-                if (std::filesystem::is_directory(i))
-                    continue;
+        const auto str = mPath.u8string();
+        std::size_t prefix = str.size();
 
-                const auto& path = i.path();
-                const std::string proper = Files::pathToUnicodeString(path);
+        if (prefix > 0 && str[prefix - 1] != '\\' && str[prefix - 1] != '/')
+            ++prefix;
 
-                FileSystemArchiveFile file(path);
-
-                VFS::Path::Normalized searchable(std::string_view{ proper }.substr(prefix));
-
-                const auto inserted = mIndex.emplace(std::move(searchable), std::move(file));
-                if (!inserted.second)
-                    Log(Debug::Warning)
-                        << "Warning: found duplicate file for '" << proper
-                        << "', please check your file system for two files with the same name in different cases.";
-                else
-                    out[inserted.first->first] = &inserted.first->second;
-            }
-            mBuiltIndex = true;
-        }
-        else
+        for (const auto& i : std::filesystem::recursive_directory_iterator(mPath))
         {
-            for (auto& [k, v] : mIndex)
-                out[k] = &v;
+            if (std::filesystem::is_directory(i))
+                continue;
+
+            const std::filesystem::path& filePath = i.path();
+            const std::string proper = Files::pathToUnicodeString(filePath);
+            VFS::Path::Normalized searchable(std::string_view{ proper }.substr(prefix));
+            FileSystemArchiveFile file(filePath);
+
+            const auto inserted = mIndex.emplace(std::move(searchable), std::move(file));
+            if (!inserted.second)
+                Log(Debug::Warning)
+                    << "Found duplicate file for '" << proper
+                    << "', please check your file system for two files with the same name in different cases.";
         }
     }
 
+    void FileSystemArchive::listResources(FileMap& out)
+    {
+        for (auto& [k, v] : mIndex)
+            out[k] = &v;
+    }
+
     bool FileSystemArchive::contains(Path::NormalizedView file) const
     {
         return mIndex.find(file) != mIndex.end();
diff --git a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.hpp b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.hpp
index b158ef3472..215c443b58 100644
--- a/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.hpp
+++ b/components/vfs/filesystemarchive.hpp
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ namespace VFS
 
     private:
         std::map<VFS::Path::Normalized, FileSystemArchiveFile, std::less<>> mIndex;
-        bool mBuiltIndex;
         std::filesystem::path mPath;
     };