Re: Need to read MYD files

[Peter Brawley]

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I have extracted the files from the ZIP, opened bin and clicked on mysql.exe. That should have been enough.

If MySQL were simply a file-processing app, you might be right.

But MySQL is an RDBMS, a much more complicated beast. To retrieve data from .MYD files, you need a working installation of the MySQL server, and you need the .FRM files which define the tables for which the .MYD files hold data,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60161692/how-to-get-data-from-myd-myi-frm-and-export-in-csv-files

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7783761/how-to-restore-data-from-mysql-frm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/484750/restoring-mysql-database-from-physical-files