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From: Fokke Nauta <usenet@solfon.nl>
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Subject: Re: How to re-activate databases
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 14:55:54 +0200
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On 06/06/2019 09:22, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 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.
> 

You mean my.ini. That's the config file.
When I change the data path, MySQL will no longer start.
That's why I tried to do the trick with the sym link.

Fokke