Re: Installing MySQL on Vista

Haven't done this one wihtMySQL yet, but my feeling is that anything belongs off the root if it is to be generally shared across users.

I believe the same is true of documents folders that will be shared over the network or between users. If another user is logged in Vista prevents access to some of the personal folders in order to protect "private" files belonging to the user who is not logged on.

> What is the best way to install MySQL on Vista?
>
> I'm assuming the expected location is under Program Files, like any other
> program. But since Vista won't let any program write to the program files
> directory, it automatically copies the databases to a subdirectory under
> Users\Bob\AppData\...VirtualStore\Program Files\MySQL\Data\ for example.
>
> If another user logs in to the computer, those databases don't exist for
> him, which makes it a little tough if you want to use the same data
> regardless of how you log in!
>
> This is all solved by installing MySQL directly off the root, i.e.,
> c:\MySQL\, but I'm not sure that's really the "right" way to do things.
>
> Any ideas? Recommendations?
>
> Thanks
>
> Van
>
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