[Digikam-users] sqlite data

[Joel B. Mohler]

Hi,

I'm new to digiKam (just getting my digital camera today) and it looks like 
just the thing to organize photos in a wife-friendly manner.  I have one 
question though.  I'd like to archive the photo captions/tags etc in a human 
readable format.  I'm under the impression that all of this information is 
kept in the digikam.db in the root album folder in an sqlite format.  I 
thought I could then have the sqlite CLI program dump the data for backup.  
However that doesn't work on my computer with the following issues:

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$ sqlite3 digikam.db
SQLite version 3.2.1
Enter ".help" for instructions
sqlite> .tables
Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
sqlite> .database
Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
sqlite>
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Am I understanding the file digikam.db correctly?  Is there another way to 
export this information which is automatable for daily backup?

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thanks
Joel