MAMP mysql server won't start. No mysql processes are running

Question

My MAMP mysql server won\'t start. All of the suggestions I\'ve seen on the web say to check for other mysqld processes running and kill them if they exist, and that it shou

Answer 1

What worked for me was removing all files (but not directories) in the mysql dir.

Edit #2 As per answers below, you only need to delete the log files: [ib_logfile0, ib_logfile1]

So quit MAMP and then in the terminal:

rm /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/ib_logfile* #(or wherever your MAMP is installed)

Edit!: A few people have mentioned that you may want to back up these files first in case anything goes wrong, so maybe just use mv instead:

mv /Applications/MAMP/db/mysql/*  /tmp/.

If this doesn't work go back and kill all processes: sudo killall -9 mysqld

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