I am using MAMP 4.1 on Windows 10 and cannot get MySQL server to start. When I uninstalled MAMP and re-installed it MySQL server starts up, but when I stop it, it will not s
I had the same problem today.
I did try removing everything from C:\MAMP\db\mysql\ and tried to restart MAMP & servers. But it failed.
Then I noticed the following error in the mysql log file /MAMP/logs/mysql_error_log.err
[error] Cannot open windows event_log ; check privileges
This basically means that you don't have sufficient access.
So
run as administrator