Thread: database disk image is malformed
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Old 06-26-2009, 11:34 AM   #2
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One possible way to try to recover your database is to install the commad line sqlite tool and run it like this

sqlite3 metadata.db < .dump > dump.sql
del metadata.db
sqlite3 metadata.db < dump.sql

This will try to dump your database to SQL statements and recover recreate it from that
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