SQLite revOpenDatabase() and Relative File Paths

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Thu Feb 20 13:07:34 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2014, at 10:54 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>

> > get revOpenDatabase("sqlite","/Folder Name/mySQLite.db",,,)
>
>  You don't need the leading "/" in the relative file path. With the
> defaultFolder set to the parent folder of Folder Name, you simply use
> "Folder Name/mySQLite.db" as the path.
>

It's more than "don't need."  You *must not* do that if you want a relative
path.  The leading /  tells it to go the the root of the file system.
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