diff --git a/lib/app.js b/lib/app.js
index 26ddd4d93..47265db5c 100644
--- a/lib/app.js
+++ b/lib/app.js
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ i18n.configure({
   locales: ['en', 'zh-CN', 'zh-TW', 'fr', 'de', 'ja', 'es', 'ca', 'el', 'pt', 'it', 'tr', 'ru', 'nl', 'hr', 'pl', 'uk', 'hi', 'sv', 'eo', 'da', 'ko', 'id', 'sr', 'vi', 'ar', 'cs', 'sk'],
   cookie: 'locale',
   indent: '    ', // this is the style poeditor.com exports it, this creates less churn
-  directory: path.join(__dirname, '/locales'),
+  directory: path.join(__dirname, '../locales'),
   updateFiles: config.updateI18nFiles
 })