diff --git a/forge.config.cjs b/forge.config.cjs
index 192bcbe3d..91730ed43 100644
--- a/forge.config.cjs
+++ b/forge.config.cjs
@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@ module.exports = {
     overwrite: true,
     asar: true,
     icon: "./images/app-icons/icon",
-    extraResource: getExtraResourcesForPlatform(),
+    extraResource: [
+      // Moved to root
+      ...getExtraResourcesForPlatform(),
+
+      // Moved to resources (TriliumNext Notes.app/Contents/Resources on macOS)
+      "translations/"
+    ],
     afterComplete: [(buildPath, _electronVersion, platform, _arch, callback) => {
       const extraResources = getExtraResourcesForPlatform();
       for (const resource of extraResources) {
@@ -77,8 +83,7 @@ module.exports = {
 function getExtraResourcesForPlatform() {
   let resources = [
     'dump-db/',
-    './bin/tpl/anonymize-database.sql',
-    'translations/'
+    './bin/tpl/anonymize-database.sql'
   ];
   const scripts = ['trilium-portable', 'trilium-safe-mode', 'trilium-no-cert-check']
   switch (process.platform) {
diff --git a/src/services/i18n.ts b/src/services/i18n.ts
index 5754bc4eb..d7620cffd 100644
--- a/src/services/i18n.ts
+++ b/src/services/i18n.ts
@@ -2,19 +2,34 @@ import i18next from "i18next";
 import Backend from "i18next-fs-backend";
 import options from "./options.js";
 import sql_init from "./sql_init.js";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
+import { dirname, join } from "path";
+import utils from "./utils.js";
+import env from "./env.js";
 
 export async function initializeTranslations() {
+  const resourceDir = getResourceDir();
+
   // Initialize translations
   await i18next.use(Backend).init({
       lng: getCurrentLanguage(),
       fallbackLng: "en",
       ns: "server",
+      debug: true,
       backend: {
-          loadPath: "translations/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json"
+          loadPath: join(resourceDir, "translations/{{lng}}/{{ns}}.json")
       }
   });
 }
 
+function getResourceDir() {
+  if (utils.isElectron() && !env.isDev()) {
+    return process.resourcesPath;
+  } else {
+    return join(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "..");
+  }
+}
+
 function getCurrentLanguage() {
   let language;
   if (sql_init.isDbInitialized()) {