title: Manually placing MySQL database files in the data folder - WAMP - XAMPP
body: <p>I recently switched from using XAMPP to WAMP on my Windows 7 machine so I can do fast switching of PHP versions. </p>
  
  <p>I completely uninstalled XAMPP, but first I backed up my htdocs, apache and mysql directories just in case. </p>
  
  <p>After I installed WAMP and had everything up and running, I figured I could just drop some of my databases from my old XAMPP install into the "data" directory of the mysql directory in WAMP. </p>
  
  <p>So that worked and the database shows up in phpMyadmin, but there are no tables. Is this a permissions thing? Like maybe I don't have the same user in the new install of mysql? Or am I missing something? </p>
  
  <p>Am I allowed to just copy MySQL databases from one data folder to another or does it not work that way?</p>
  
  <p>Both instances are using MySQL 5.5 (at least that's what both README files say in both MySQL directories).</p>
  
  <p>THANKS</p>