Re: Copying data and settings from old to new computer?
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010 schrieb Michael Schuerig:
> > On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Amarok is a different case. It uses an embedded MySQL engine
> > (mysqle) and I haven't found a way to dump that. The upshot? I had
> > to rescan my entire music collection and lost my ratings and
> > statistics in the process.
>
> But not this one.
>
> Maybe you can dump it, if you install a 32 bit - I don't know if a 64
> bit MySQL will work - MySQL server and put the directory
I tried to do that on the old machine. Using a MySQL 32-bit *server* to
run with the MySQLe data dir. Didn't work.
> Maybe there is another command for dumping an MySQL embedded
> database. Did you use a search engine to find something like that?
I was unable to find anything relevant on the web. I'm using MySQL (if I
can't use PostgreSQL) for software development and these are details
even I am not familiar with, I would expect an ordinary user to have any
idea of them.
Michael
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