diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6afac3c18..ee821f5cb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Desktop.ini
 Thumbs.db
 ehthumbs.db
 
-messages.pot
+po/template.po
 *.mo
 .directory
 .fuse_hidden*
diff --git a/build_tools/update_translations.fish b/build_tools/update_translations.fish
index 0d2a8b663..c9575440c 100755
--- a/build_tools/update_translations.fish
+++ b/build_tools/update_translations.fish
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 set -gx LC_ALL C.UTF-8
 
 set -l build_tools (status dirname)
-set -l template_file $build_tools/../messages.pot
+set -l template_file $build_tools/../po/template.po
 set -l po_dir $build_tools/../po
 
 set -l extract