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
Are you sure?
/usr/local/mysql is a symbolic link to another direcory (
/usr/local/mysql(version).
I think the installer overwrite the symbolic link so if you open a
terminal and type:
ls -l /usr/local
Santino
At 16:20 -0700 28-10-2004, Steven Roussey wrote:
Installing MySQL 4.1.7 (upgrading f
So, do you have a question or are you just bragging? ;-)
Rhino
- Original Message -
From: "Steven Roussey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: Upgrading MySQL erased all data
> Installing MySQL 4.1.7
Installing MySQL 4.1.7 (upgrading from 4.1.3) on MacOS X erased the contents
of /usr/local/mysql/data -- the privs and data of the previous installation.
FYI
Luckily (and unfortunately) we have a backup of that database from last
week. (The guy that did it here in the office is still in a bit of
