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On 05/06/2019 21.35, Fokke Nauta wrote:

> I have copied all the contents of the folder E:/Files/Databases/MySQL to 
> the folder C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Data.
> OK, it works.
> But due to my backup system I want all other datbases to be it the same 
> folder E:/Files/Databases/..
> The MySQL database as well. So I thought to be clever and created a 
> symbolic link from E:/Files/Databases/MySQL to 
> C:/ProgramData/MySQL/MySQL Server 8.0/Data, in order to keep the MySQL 
> database in the same folder.
> Didn't work. The MySQL service didn't want to start again with the same 
> message.
> 
> Any more tricks to make it work?

Remove the "symbolic link" and configure your my.cnf to have the correct 
path for the datadir setting.

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  //Aho