SQLite "file is encrypted or is not a database" - ios

Question

I guess this should be fairly simple, since I an new to Xcode, Objective-C and SQLite, and I am just trying to get a simple tutorial to work.
I copied the "sampled.sql" file to the directory and this is the code that connects:
-(NSMutableArray *) authorList {
theauthors = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:10];
#try {
NSFileManager *fileMgr = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSString *dbPath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath ]stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"sampledb.sql"];
BOOL success = [fileMgr fileExistsAtPath:dbPath];
if(!success)
{
NSLog(#"Cannot locate database file '%#'.", dbPath);
}
if(!(sqlite3_open([dbPath UTF8String], &db) == SQLITE_OK))
{
NSLog(#"An error has occured: %s", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
}
const char *sql = "SELECT * FROM verb";
sqlite3_stmt *sqlStatement;
if(sqlite3_prepare(db, sql, -1, &sqlStatement, NULL) != SQLITE_OK)
{
NSLog(#"Problem with prepare statement 1: %s", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
} else {
while (sqlite3_step(sqlStatement)==SQLITE_ROW) {
Author * author = [[Author alloc] init];
author.verb_nutid = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *) sqlite3_column_text(sqlStatement,1)];
//author.title = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *) sqlite3_column_text(sqlStatement,2)];
[theauthors addObject:author];
}
}
sqlite3_finalize(sqlStatement);
}
#catch (NSException *exception) {
NSLog(#"Problem with prepare statement 2: %s", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
}
#finally {
sqlite3_close(db);
return theauthors;
}
}
DATABASE FILE:
BEGIN TRANSACTION
CREATE TABLE "verb" ('ID' INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, 'verba' TEXT, 'verbb' TEXT);
INSERT INTO 'verb' VALUES …
And so on...
But I get the error:
Problem with prepare statement 1: file is encrypted or is not a database
Help would be much appreciated! (-:

Answer 1

Try to write your sampledb.sql into the documents directory instead of the bundle directory :
// Getting the documents directory path
NSString *docsDir;
NSArray *dirPaths;
dirPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
docsDir = [dirPaths objectAtIndex:0];
// Getting your db's path
NSString *dbPath = [docsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"sampledb.sql"];
There's no way to write into the bundle directory because it's code signed with SSL certificate. But the documents directory's not.