marek1703:

That may be the case ... as I said, I don't know the details.

But you can frequently make the computer do most of the wading for you, something like:

my %db_tables;
my @db_list = `ls -1U`;
for my $db_name (@db_list) {
   eval {
      my $DB = DBI->connect("dbi:SQLite:dbname=$db_name");
      my $ST = $DB->table_info(undef, undef, 'TABLE');
      while (my $hr = $ST->fetchrow_hashref) {
         $db_tables{$hr->{TABLE_NAME}}{$db_name}=0;
      }
   };
   if ($@) {
      print "Skipping $db_name (Not a database? '$@'\n";
   }
}

for my $tbl (sort keys %db_tables) {
   print "TABLE: $tbl\nDBs: ", join(", ", @{$db_tables{$tbl}}), "\n\n"
+;
}

[download]

This script should be close to something that will search all the databases you found and list the tables to help you narrow it down.

Having said that, if you have 600+ databases, then my guess may have been horribly incorrect. Perhaps the application stores each note in its down database (yuck!) or maybe (based on the path name) each database is a list of changes on the iPhone that need to be synched with other devices or ...? It may be more profitable to ask on an apple developer forum about these databases.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re^3: Cryptic file names in iPhone backup by roboticus
in thread Cryptic file names in iPhone backup by marek1703

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