InnoDB: Cannot Open file (name)

[Cody Broekhuizen]

I've been running my own game server for awhile, and for what ever reason MySQL crashed, I had to uninstall/reinstall MySQL to get it to start up again. I did keep the data folder from the old install. So while trying to restart the server with the old data folder i get error log stating

[Warning] InnoDB: Cannot open table lif_1/character from the internal data dictionary of InnoDB though the .frm file for the table exists.

and it repeats for every file in the lif_1 folder. Not sure what to do to have it use these files instead of recreating them and starting my server fresh.