Thanks Richard. It's good to know exactly what the problem is. I'll stop posting about it here and follow up with the pysqlite forum.
And thanks again to you Robert. I didn't realize that the Schema was just a place for the developer to leave a note. I assumed that it was the sqlite's internal database schema that was being used to describe some internal control tables or something like that. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list [email protected] http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
