Where does Sequel Pro / MAMP store local databases?

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Brian Weinreich picture Brian Weinreich · Sep 8, 2011 · Viewed 37k times · Source

I had a few databases created on my computer via Sequel Pro & MAMP, and was running localhost to view them. However, I did a fresh install of Mac OS Lion, and I forgot to backup the databases to .sql files.

I do backup my files regularly, and have a copy of the computer pre-install. Does anyone know the path to the db files? Are they stored in a format that I could rebuild, so I could import into Sequel Pro?

Answer

Brendan Underwood picture Brendan Underwood · Jul 11, 2013

Brian W's answer didn't really help with me using MAMP Pro (v2.1.4), but luckily someone else did. Location for mine were:

/Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql

They also said that they've moved it to Dropbox and then used a unix symlink for the original location (not a Mac OS X alias as they don't work), that way it does get backed up as well.

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