Well, disregard my email. I was selecting the dictionary to copy into my reply
when I noticed I'd transposed two letters in the path, meaning that Django was
trying to access a path that does not exist. That will certainly throw errors!
:) Thanks anyway, and I'm sure I'll have more questions as I start developing
my real site and not a tutorial. Sorry for the stupid mistake.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Rafael E. Ferrero <[email protected]> wrote:
> maybe pastebin your code helps... you have permission on folders where sqlite
> file will be created?
> I have this in settings.py (django 1.3.1):
> ...
> 'default': {
> # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or
> 'oracle'.
> 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
> # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
> 'NAME': '/path/to/my/file.sqlite',
> ...
>
> Have some info message of error ??
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> 2013/7/16 Alex Hall <[email protected]>
> Hello list,
> I am well versed in Python, and I hate web development, but I have to make a
> website for my business. So, I thought I'd use Python to make the task more
> tolerable.
>
> I'm working through the official Django tutorial, and am at the part where I
> am to run "python manage.py syncdb". However, I keep getting:
> operational error: unable to open database file."
>
> I set the "NAME" key to the absolute path (this is on OS10.8), the folder
> should be writeable since it is just a folder in my user account, there are
> no special characters or spaces in the path, and I've tried both ending it
> with a slash and no filename and providing a filename. Nothing works, and I
> have no idea why. I am running the latest production version, 1.5.1, if that
> matters. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
> [email protected]
>
>
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