Error #2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

Question

I\'m running MAMP.
It has been working fine up until yesterday. I haven\'t been able to find anything that helps so far. But here is my problem:

As the title

Answer 1

Test

If you attempt to start MySQL using the full path it should work

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -u root -p

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Fix

If that works, then you can set it to work normally by running

sudo ln -s /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp/mysql.sock

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Resolution

Now MySQL should work normally

mysql -u root -p