We're talking about a Windows machine, right? I don't have any of
those these days but it sounds to me like it didn't thoroughly
uninstall.
If that much is correct, I'd first be suspicious of junk left in the
registry or data directories. Even if it meant I had to install it
again, I'd use a sep
Most helpful people of all time -
I have a student who uninstalled his mySQL and then reinstalled. When
the wizard gets to the point of starting the server, it sits there for a
couple of minutes and then the wizard has a message that it is not
responding. As suggested on the developer zone, he rem
On 10/19/2010 12:38 PM, Montgomery, Tammie wrote:
I had an old version of mySQL on my computer but never used it. I thought I
knew the root password but it wouldn't let me in. I went ahead and uninstalled
it thinking I would get a newer version anyway. I used the Windows interface to
uninstall
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Subject: Re: uninstall/reinstall
You mention the Windows installer has Hung. I have seen this
before...try killing the process with task manager and then log into
your server via
You mention the Windows installer has Hung. I have seen this before...try
killing the process with task manager and then log into your server via the
client.
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From: "ext Tyler Poland"
Date: Tue, Oct 19, 2010 17:50
Subject:
Tammie,
You might just try resetting the root password
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/resetting-permissions.html#resetting-permissions-windows.
Hope this helps,
Tyler
On 10/19/10 12:38 PM, Montgomery, Tammie wrote:
I had an old version of mySQL on my computer but never used it. I
I had an old version of mySQL on my computer but never used it. I thought I
knew the root password but it wouldn't let me in. I went ahead and uninstalled
it thinking I would get a newer version anyway. I used the Windows interface to
uninstall the previous version. It appeared to be gone but wh
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
> I recently installed MySQL 4.0.12 on Mac OS X (using the package
> provided in the downloads section) and I must have corrupted something
> because I can't get the mysql command to work. I thought the ea
I recently installed MySQL 4.0.12 on Mac OS X (using the package
provided in the downloads section) and I must have corrupted something
because I can't get the mysql command to work. I thought the easiest
thing to do would be to uninstall the whole thing and start over, but I
can't figure out h
