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Re: MySQLserver reconfigution notice. Missing data folder.
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: January 11, 2016 10:27AM

When you run the mysql server, you have to tell it where the data folder is, amongst other things, by specifying a location of my.ini, which sets datadir &c. Without it, the server now looks for the folder it tells you it can't find. (Why it defaults to looking in the %programfiles% tree is a mystery---that's a dumb place to store data.)

And in Windows, the mysql service is owned by a user called network_service, which needs to be able to see such folders.

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