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QB on Mac

QB on Mac

Posted May 15, 2007 14:01 UTC (Tue) by amk (subscriber, #19)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's next project

I tried out QB 2006/7 for the Mac, and discovered that the data files are actually SQLite databases; perhaps they're also SQLite on Windows.

To retrieve the value of one particular setting, at one point I ran the 'sqlite' command interpreter on the QB datafile, poked around the schema a bit, and found the setting I needed. The schema isn't documented, of course, and will probably change in future versions. It should also simplify the task of writing a QB-to-free software converter.


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