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Hi,

I just upgrade my OS to win10, before that made a nice backup and all the stuff, but I did forget to export my dbs from the phpmyadmin.

Now I just reinstalled XAMPP, but I can't find a solution to bring back my old dbs, (some wordpress and others test sites).

Could you help me! thanks in advance!

Walt3r10 wrote:Now I just reinstalled XAMPP

What do you mean with "reinstalled"? You simply should restore the backuped Xampp folder, this brings back all you stuff, including HTML/PHP documents as well as your databases.

I moved all the xampp files to a new dir, with a lot of old stuff in order to delete it, when I know that I didn't forget nothing.
So, after that, I installed Win10, and a brand new xampp.
I checked that i have everything I need to continue working, and then I found out that I made a mistake, forgiving to pay proper backup all the xampp files.
(No problem with the php and other libraries but a headache with mysql files)

Walt3r10 wrote:So, after that, I installed Win10, and a brand new xampp.

Thats what i thought, Dont install brand new Xampp, copy the old installation back to c:/xampp or similar.

You might try to replace the data folder of mysql in your brand new Xampp instead, rename the original folder (like data-backup or so) and copy the old mysql/data folder to the new Xampp installation. If you are lucky, this already works. But if your previous installation was too old, this does not work properly, therefore i recommended to restore the old Xampp installation as well. But you may try this of course.

It works, Thank you!