如何在OS X Lion中还原MySQL .frm .MYD .MYI文件

Question

I received a bunch of these types of files and haven't a clue as how to restore the database on my Mac. I've found instructions on how to do this on Windows, that you simply need to put these into a specific directory and the database should be restored, but I don't know which directory, or even where it would be located in OS X.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

To find you MySQL data directory, open the file /etc/my.cnf . It should be there if you've MySQL installed.

Find the variable datadir: datadir=/var/lib/mysql , create a directory under that and copy all your DB files in there, as in /var/lib/mysql/database , where database is your DB name.

In a previous version of this answer I suggested to use sudo locate user.frm , but it didn't work, even after running sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb . If anyone knows why, I'd like to hear.