Hi All,

I was running MySQL 5.0.15-community-nt over WinXP/SP2.

My instance of MySQL 5.0.15 got corrupted recently: it no longer
accepted my root password. I managed to backup that instance and
reinstall a new instance, MySQL 5.0.27, which seems to be working
properly.

Question: Is it safe to restore subdirectories of the former data
directory to the data directory of the newly installed instance?
Notice that my new instance is a more recent version of MySQL.

Regards,
Richard

Hi All,

Ok, I copied the data sub-directories for databases I wanted. No
problem, at first. However, MySQL didn't see any tables for those
databases.

So I stopped the server. Renamed ibdata1 to ibdata1-bkup. Copied that
saved version. Restarted the server. Tables and their content now seen
by MySQL.

Seems to work great.

Regards,
Richard