How are you shutting down MySQL? I tried with fwconsole stop and when I followed those steps it broke the GUI. It was easily fixed by replacing the correct directory in the my.cnf file (assuming that’s the right file and its not really called my.ini)
mysqladmin shutdown
… should work.
there is a my.cnf in /etc that will be the first one read by mysql.
If you shut down mysql, move the data files (all of them… you can’t pick and choose), then edit /etc/my.conf and change the datadir= then you should be able to start mysqld and have it work.
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