AdWords Editor Crashing due to SQLite
November 11th, 2009
I’ve just installed a new version of the AdWords Editor onto a new Vista machine which had Chrome and Firefox installed.
Both Chrome, Firefox and AdWords Editor use SQLite for their database. I’m not sure whether there is a conflict with the way these are installed, but every now and then the AdWords Editor software crashes, and windows reports that there was an error with SQLite.
I have sucessfully resolved this problem by downloading the latest SQLite binary libraries, and extracting the sqlite3.dll into the Windows System32 directory. Upon reloading the AdWords Editor, everything begins to work fine.
I have the same error, thanks for your tips, i have to try download sqlite.dll now.
Thanks for this tip, I was having the exact same problem today. I’ll go fix it now! :-).
I tried this solution. Yet my editor is crashing while trying to fetch its first campaign. Really frustrating to manage PPC without it.
Worked like a charm. Thanks a bunch!
@Rakesh
Rakesh,
Did you ever resolve this crashing problem with Adwords Editor? It’s doing the same thing for me.
James
I was stressing about the same problem myself on a Windows XP machine for a little while today. Fixed it with your help and some additional sleuthing. Here’s a little update from late July 2010:
Extract the sqlite3.dll file from this zip file, found on that sqlite download page, in the section “Precompiled Binaries For Windows”: sqlitedll-3_7_0.zip. Then go to Program Files\Google\Google AdWords Editor\xulrunner and replace the file already there.
Good luck all - you’d think Google would have fixed this by now! -Tracy