How to Translate All Missing Cells at Once

When your project has gaps in multiple locales and you don't want to click ✨ on every row, run Translate all missing with AI from the command palette. One pass fills every empty or copy-paste cell across every non-base locale.

Opening the dialog

1. Press ⌘K to open the command palette.
2. Pick Translate all missing with AI (or type translate to filter).
3. The dialog computes what's missing:
   • Cells where the target locale value is absent, empty, or exactly equal to the base locale value (indicating an untranslated copy-paste).
   • Plural keys are excluded — for those use each locale's ✨ AI translate button on the plural panel.

Phases

• Checking — verifying your API key is available.
• Empty — if nothing's missing, the dialog shows "All locales up to date" + Dismiss.
• No key — if no API key is configured for the provider, routes you to Settings → AI.
• Confirm — total count + the first five locales involved (or the first five plus "…and N more"). Click Translate to start.
• Translating — progress bar with running count ("N / M across K locales") + the locale currently being processed. Cancel is available between chunks.
• Done — summary: Translated N of M keys. K error(s). plus the last error message if any chunk failed.

What happens under the hood

• Iterates locales sequentially (respects rate limits) and calls translateKeysBatch per locale.
• Each successful translation is applied via the normal auto-save path — writes hit your source files with the same format-preserving behaviour as manual edits.
• Canceling between chunks keeps every result written so far. You can always re-run the command to pick up the remaining gaps.
• Failed chunks surface their error messages in the summary so you can retry.

Related

• Set up AI translation — prerequisite (BYOK provider + API key).
• Translate individual keys — the per-cell ✨ flow, still useful for one-off edits.
• Bulk translate a locale — focused single-locale bulk flow via the toolbar Translate… menu.