Upgraded to MySQL 8. Workbench still trying to use version 5.6

[John Parlier]

Greetings,

So I upgraded from MySQL 5.6.34 to MySQL 8.0 and Workbench 6.3->8.0

I noticed a few things when I click on server status (left navigation bar) after creating a new instance. I see this info....

host: JP
socket: mysql
port: 8889

version: 5.634-log
MySQL Community Server(GPL)

Configuration File: c:\ProgramFiles\MySQL\MySQL Server5.0\my.ini


The version and configuration file is wrong.

So I click on the wrench (next to instance) which gives me the manage server connections. I click on the tab System profile and adjust the 'Installation type' and the 'configuration file'


After making these adjustments, I refresh my server connection and look again at the info and I see this now

version: 5.634-log
MySQL Community Server(GPL)

Configuration File: c:\ProgramFiles\MySQL\MySQL Server8.0\my.ini


So I successfully changed the configuration file to the right path.

However, I have no clue how to change the version. It keeps showing MySQL 5.6.

This is the error when I try to hook up to the database

"Failedto connect to MySQL: (2003) Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)"

Im assuming its because MySQL workbench 8 is trying to use MySQL 5.6 instead of 8.0

So how do I change this???
Any help would be much appreciated