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 was running MAMP 4.1 on windows and MYSQL 5.7 .Was having this problem many times and found out a fix for this: For me deleting the log files was not working then just delete

• mysql-bin.index
• YOUR_PC_NAME.pid

and boom it starts working again. If this also doesn't work for your, remember to delete each file one by one and keep checking if any works for you. Make sure to backup always.