Thank you, Mike. I haven't tried your first option yet, but I will either today or tomorrow. What kinds of clues would I look for in settings? Also: any ideas about my first question?
Everyone: I'm in Naples, Florida. If anyone is in the Southwest Florida area and wants to try and help, I'll get you a Randy's key lime pie. Or take you out for seafood. Or something. On Sunday, July 6, 2014 7:36:46 PM UTC-4, Janelle O'Dea wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have two separate Django questions. > > One: I am trying to learn how to use Django on my computer (Mac OS, > Mavericks) and was first getting the error "unable to open database" when > running "python manage.py syncdb." To fix it, I followed instructions from > here: https://coderwall.com/p/gl_grw > Now, I can't save settings.py. I realize this may have to do with the > advice to change permissions on the page I just linked to; how can I change > them back? > When I run the "python manage.py syncdb" command now, it tells me there's > a syntax error in settings.py. When I try to fix settings.py and save it, > it tells me ERRNO 13 permission denied. > I'm mainly trying to get a feel for Django because I may want to use it in > the near future. > > Two: At my workplace, someone produced a Django app on Ubuntu. The app is > a source database for reporters to view and add to (I work at a newspaper). > The main question: can I get the source information out of this database so > that we can recover it and use it, even if the original creator of this > app/database is not available? He isn't responding to phone calls or > emails, and bosses want me to see if I can extract the info. I've never > worked in Ubuntu before. > > Thanks for any help that anyone can provide. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/38f6d8d0-efe2-4739-9e79-bdcd35f2cc7b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
