Quick summary

I'm unable to pull sites with the database option selected, getting an error message as below. Not sure how to debug this as there are no results on Google or code search in this repository for the error message. I've tried with a fresh local site and I only own one paid WordPress.com site to try with, but I have tried with both Production and Staging versions of it. It's worked fine in the past, but I haven't used Studio since at least February, though I have updated it to 1.9.0.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a site (with the same WordPress and PHP version as in use on WordPress.com in case that mattered)
2. On the sync tab, connect a WordPress.com site
3. Pull, choosing both checkbox options including Database
4. Error!

What you expected to happen

The local site is updated to the state of the remote site.

What actually happened

Error invoking remote method 'importSite': Error: Database import failed: �[31;1mError:�[0m Could not determine the version of the SQLite integration plugin.

Impact

?

Available workarounds?

No and the app is unusable

Platform

Mac Silicon

Logs or notes

[2026-05-16T17:08:04.128Z][erro][main] Error occurred in handler for 'importSite': Error: Database import failed: �[31;1mError:�[0m Could not determine the version of the SQLite integration plugin.

    at ensureError (/Applications/Studio.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/main/index.js:43984:14)
    at TypedEventEmitter.<anonymous> (/Applications/Studio.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/main/index.js:44021:21)
    at TypedEventEmitter.emit (node:events:509:28)
    at TypedEventEmitter.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at TypedEventEmitter.emit (/Applications/Studio.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/main/index.js:27244:18)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/Applications/Studio.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/dist/main/index.js:27334:18)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:509:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:domain:489:12)
    at emit (node:internal/child_process:972:14)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:91:21)