Hello,

You website states that bugs reports should be sent to this list  
(http://www.sqlite.org/src/wiki?name=Bug+Reports).

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Bug report: unhelpful error message when directory permissions are wrong

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make new database in the directory /var/database/ with root permissions.
2. Change file ower to normal user
3. Try to open database and make changes to it as the normal user

What happends:
There is the error message "sqlite: Unable to open database file"

What was expected:
The error message: "sqlite: Unable to write to database due to file or  
folder permissions"

I just spent several hours trying to debug a PySqlite app which gave  
the "unable to open database file" error. Finally I found that in  
order to write to the database, Sqlite for some reason needs to have  
write permissions to the _folder_ the file resides in.

Please change the error message to be more descriptive so that others  
could save time debugging the issue. You can find on Google tons of  
people wondering about this error, but few will ever find the  
solutions. Fixing the error message would solve it.
**

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Otto Kekäläinen
www.sange.fi
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