<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 January 2011 17:20, javadayaz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:javadayaz@gmail.com">javadayaz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>My podcast app on my android phone- Google Listen, saves any user data, playlists etc as a .db file.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there anything i can use to open this file and edit the contents? Also if no options are available in the ubuntu universe i will also look at windows tools for this job.<br clear="all">
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It might be a Berkeley DB database so there are libraries for most languages and it will probably be installed in Ubuntu, so copy the file over to your computer and try db_dump <filename>. There is a viewer here: <a href="http://tlzprgmr.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/berkeley-db-viewer/">http://tlzprgmr.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/berkeley-db-viewer/</a> but the format isn't very human readable and quite easy to break.<br>
<br>Having said that, it could be a text file or some other kind of binary file so try viewing it with less or strings.<br><br>s/<br></div></div>-- <br>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<br>"Is this your sanderling?"<br><br>