Hi there,
I hope someone can please help me.
I've had Xampp running on my desktop computer happily for a couple of years. However, last week my desktop tower went and killed by hardrive before it then dies on me totally. I have back-ups of everything just in case this sort of this happens.
I have a laptop running Windows 10 and so I wanted to move my Xampp onto that. I have dragged the entire Xampp folder that contains everything from the version running on my recently deceased desktop machine. However, I cannot seem to find the data for the databases.
As I have every file that was on my desktop pc now sitting on my laptop, I assumed that all data for the databases would also have been copied over.
So my questions are:
1. As I just dragged a back-up folder of Xampp onto my laptop, it is not installed, just sitting there. How can I install this properly?
2. Do I still have my database content somewhere within these files and folders, or does Xampp store this information somewhere else on the machine other than the Xampp folder? I hope not as I had 2 years worth of data on there
3. If my data is somewhere within the Xampp folder, can someone please tell me how to access it?
I'm very grateful for any answers anyone can give me.