I think I have solved the problem. It is a WinRT problem with how SQLite writes a file. See this url - https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/879846/Using-SQLite-Databases-in-Any-Folder-in-WinRT This explains what the problem is and gives a solution to writing database files anywhere using VFS in SQLite. I am going to try putting my database in the app's local storage folder and see if it works. I bet it does. Thanks and I will post how this works out for me.