Foldit Translations

Foldit players belong to many countries. Translations of the game have been made in several languages.

Some help can be find also in some teams.

Chapter 1 - Find and download a translation

Translation is a file named 'foldit.[LANGUAGE_CODE].po' and located in folder 'locale'.

If you are having problems downloading, please see

Languages already translated from :

Czech (cz) —Potřebujete pomoc? Prosím, kontaktujte: Czech team Czech National Team

Dutch (nl) —Heb je hulp nodig? Neem contact op met: Dutch team FoldIt@Netherlands or treblasnirp

French (fr) —http://dl.free.fr/lJ0ep239o (bug on site). Besoin d'aide? S'il vous plaît contacter: French speaking team L'Alliance Francophone and player marie_s

German (de) —(partial) Brauchen Sie Hilfe? Bitte kontaktieren Sie: German team SETI.Germany or player Madde

Italian (it) —Hai bisogno di aiuto? Si prega di contattare: Italian team BOINC.Italy

Romanian (ro) —Aveti nevoie de ajutor? Vă rugăm să contactaţi:Romanian team ROMANIA Team

Spanish (es) —¿Necesitas ayuda? Por favor, póngase en contacto con: thom001
- Other dialects:

At this point, you should have on your system: [PO_FILE] = foldit.[LANGUAGE CODE].po

NOTE: You may have to rename the downloaded file to match [PO_FILE] in these instructions. You've been warned ;-)

Find data file location for Foldit ([DATA_DIR]) = C:\Foldit\, or other that You have selected on installation
Find folder in [DATA_DIR] named locale in tlatest resources folder, C:\Foldit\cmp-resources-81b20a92dcbd7541f62e8515bada315b\resources\locale for example
Start Fold.it
Select interface language in logon dialog, if it not yet selected before

Download the proper translation .po (not the mo) file
The format needs to be "foldit.[LANGUAGE_CODE].po" (for example, foldit.fr.po) - if the file is named differently, you need to change the name to this format.
Create a new folder named "locale"
Put the .po file into the "locale" folder
From Finder menu - Go - Applications
In Applications folder - right (or control) click on Foldit
Select Show Package Contents
In the Contents folder, open the Resources folder
Put the "locale" folder into the Resources folder
Also in the Resources folder - open "options.txt" with TextEdit
Add (or edit) the line "language" : "[LANGUAGE_CODE]" (for example, "language" : "fr")
Save the "options.txt"
Start Fold.it

Find data file location for Foldit ([DATA_DIR]) = Foldit directory
Create [DATA_DIR]/locale = mkdir ./locale
Copy [PO_FILE] to [DATA_DIR]/locale = cp [PO_FILE] ./locale/
Edit options.txt = vim ./options.txt
1. Add/edit the line = "language" : "[LANGUAGE_CODE]"
Start Fold.it = ./Foldit

Find data file location for Foldit ([DATA_DIR]), C:\Program Files (x86)\Foldit\, but c:\foldit is less prone to errors
Create new folder in [DATA_DIR] and name it locale, C:\Program' Files (x86)'\Foldit\locale
Copy [PO_FILE] to [DATA_DIR]/locale = copy [PO_FILE] C:\Program' Files (x86)'\Foldit\locale
Edit options.txt by clicking on it = notepad C:\Program' Files (x86)'\Foldit\options.txt
1. Add/edit the line = "language" : "[LANGUAGE_CODE]"
Start Fold.it