On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Joe Goldthwaite <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm trying to read the Firefox cookies file (cookies.sqlite). It
> worked fine in Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 but this is the first time I've tried it
> since I upgraded to Firefox 4.  Now I'm getting an error message
> "DatabaseError: file is encrypted or is not a database".  I can open the
> file with sqlite3.exe and list the cookies.  I can also open it with the
> SQLite Manager firefox add-on.
>

Recent versions of Firefox use "PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL" which requires
SQLite version 3.7.0 or later.  You won't be able to read the database files
with SQLite version 3.6.23.1 or earlier.  You'll get the "file is encrypted
or is not a database" message.


-- 
D. Richard Hipp
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