Okay, thank you all and here is how this worked out.
David's suggestion that I just use the MySQL Administrator tool for ad hoc
backups worked correctly.
The dump was created and the proper comments, settings and switches
included. Nice.
As to the email client: I use Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 (~}
Peter:
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:55:21PM -0400, Peter Sawczynec wrote:
> understand one way to get around this all is to remove the record with the
> autoincrement value of 0. After that this mode would no longer be needed.
> IIRC
> you cannot simply edit an autoincrement field (by design), so
