how to drop database

Question

i used the following sytanx

drop database filmo; 

and got the following error:

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database         


        

Answer 1

Not sure where I got this answer from (apologies) but, although similar to the above, it has the additional info of how to find the mysql data directory:

mysql -e "select @@datadir"

This, I assume, is generic and returns the path to mysql/data. If you move to that directory (unix/linux/macOS command):

cd path_to_mysql/data

you will find the database you want to remove, which on nix can be done by:

sudo rm -rf DB_NAME

On MacOS X (10.9.5) I did not have to stop MySQL, but this may differ on other platforms.