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

I've tried all the solutions above with version 4.2 of MAMP and none of them worked to me in El Capitan OS, so the only thing that worked was uninstalled MAMP with Clean My Mac and then install the older 3.5.2 version, that one worked right away.