Thanks. I passed this on and he found what was lost. I guess since the data directory was owned by mysql, he could not find the databases when doing a MacOS file search. I impressed upon him to use a separate datadir as we do with our servers, thus bypassing this whole thing.
Thanks again! -steve-- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]