sorry for spamming the list with this, i tried asking on the forums, but didn't receive a reply. i'm a complete newbie to mysql/php, but have programmed professionally (in C/C++/ASM) for about 9 years now.
i originally installed mysql into C:/Program Files/mysql, before deleting and reinstalling in the default subdirectory, which meant some paths in the registry had been setup incorrectly. i changed these manually (2 of them located), and this fixed a few issues. however after reinstalling, when i do a mysqlshow, it shows only "test" in the list of available databases, and nothing i seem to change makes a difference. i edited the my.ini to the base+base/data directories, but that didn't change anything. i even tried changing the paths in my.ini to invalid paths, and that didn't change anything either (it still located test, and test only). i searched for a test subdirectory elsewhere on my hard drive, but failed to locate one. i then created a new database, which it did in the correct subdirectory, so since it seems to be writing to the correct subdirectory, why on earth doesn't it read from the directory as well? i have administrator access to the machine. any help is much appreciated, cheers.
