Error Dropping Database (Can't rmdir '.test\', errno: 17)

Question

Basically, I was taught on how to create a root password using the \"mysqladmin -u root -p password\" command, this was done all through the windows command editor. Now, the

Answer 1

You can delete the data in the sql directory.

For me i was using AMPPS on windows 10. I went to the AMPPs installtion directory. for me it was :

D:\Program Files (x86)\Ampps\mysql\data

because i have it installed on my secondary drive.

Then refresh your SQL client and you will see it's gone.