catacaustic on "Can't Select Database"

I am on a mac, and I was using textedit.

That's exactly what the problem was. TextEdit is good for doing WYSIWYG editing, but it does munge quotes (single and double) into the "special" opening and closing quotes, and these are bad for programmers.

There's no problem doing it manually (I do but I'm overly cautious about things like that and I do have a few custom things that I add as well), but you need to use a real text editor or IDE.