diff --git a/backend/jest.config.js b/backend/jest.config.js
index d9e7065d4..0e4643c63 100644
--- a/backend/jest.config.js
+++ b/backend/jest.config.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ module.exports = {
       process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'
         ? '<rootDir>/../database/entity/$1'
         : '<rootDir>/../database/build/entity/$1',
-    // This is hack to fix a problem with the library `ts-mysql-migrate` which does differentiate between its ts/js state
     '@dbTools/(.*)':
       process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development'
         ? '<rootDir>/../database/src/$1'
diff --git a/database/migrations/0012-login_user_backups_unify_wordlist.ts b/database/migrations/0012-login_user_backups_unify_wordlist.ts
index a59a8da7f..0c04693ec 100644
--- a/database/migrations/0012-login_user_backups_unify_wordlist.ts
+++ b/database/migrations/0012-login_user_backups_unify_wordlist.ts
@@ -5,19 +5,20 @@
  * This also removes the trailing space
  */
 import fs from 'fs'
+import path from 'path'
 
 const TARGET_MNEMONIC_TYPE = 2
 const PHRASE_WORD_COUNT = 24
 const WORDS_MNEMONIC_0 = fs
-  .readFileSync('src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer18112.txt')
+  .readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer18112.txt'))
   .toString()
   .split(',')
 const WORDS_MNEMONIC_1 = fs
-  .readFileSync('src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer18113.txt')
+  .readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer18113.txt'))
   .toString()
   .split(',')
 const WORDS_MNEMONIC_2 = fs
-  .readFileSync('src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer13116.txt')
+  .readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../src/config/mnemonic.uncompressed_buffer13116.txt'))
   .toString()
   .split(',')
 const WORDS_MNEMONIC = [WORDS_MNEMONIC_0, WORDS_MNEMONIC_1, WORDS_MNEMONIC_2]
diff --git a/database/package.json b/database/package.json
index 964bb07c7..d3bda1bc4 100644
--- a/database/package.json
+++ b/database/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "license": "MIT",
   "private": false,
   "scripts": {
-    "build": "tsc --build",
+    "build": "mkdir -p build/src/config/ && cp src/config/*.txt build/src/config/ && tsc --build",
     "clean": "tsc --build --clean",
     "up": "node build/src/index.js up",
     "down": "node build/src/index.js down",