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

It happens because you may have copied /var/lib/mysql folder's database folder from another server to your server. But you haven't copied these files: /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool /var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1 /var/lib/mysql/ibtmp1 So you can create a new db and tables you are able to drop them but you can't drop the databases that you have copied from another server and you are also not able to explore the same database that you copied from another server. So I also copied that files : ib_buffer_pool,ibdata1,ib_logfile0,ib_logfile1,ibtmp1 after that everything worked.