Comments on: MySQL DROP DATABASE Recovery

By: Emilio Bool

Emilio Bool — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 06:41:20 +0000

@Mark
omg mark you are THE MAN! I was feeling this near death experience and thanks to your method I can breath again!

@Teddy you should totally make more emphasis to Mark’s method for windows users,

By: Sahil

Sahil — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:20:31 +0000

Actually what Mark said was just due to the system restore point.
I had not created restore point and now i don’t know how would i recover my database which I dropped accidentally :’(

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:15:16 +0000

Mark, thank you for sharing this cool method with us! I edited article to point to your alternative method…

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:32:34 +0000

Hello, I just accidentally dropped my database on my local wamp server. It was lost and I felt all hope was gone, but immediately i searched on the internet to find solution, but i did not get. however, i recovered it and here is how i did it. I went to the folder where phpmyadmin stores the raw data of my databases in my case “C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.32\data” then i noticed that the folder for my dropped database was not there, which means it is gone forever (not really). What i did next was to right-click inside the “data” folder window and i selected “properties” and clicked the “Previous Versions” tab. In that tab there was a list of previous versions with dates, so i selected the one i wanted, in my case i selected the previous version of the “data” folder which was 2 hours earlier. then I clicked “Restore” then it restored back the folder. During the process you might get a pop-up that says restore can not complete cos the folder is used by another process, don’t worry, just go and stop the local server service and click “try again”. I hope this helps someone

By: Teddy

Teddy — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:41:09 +0000

Enjoy recovery!

By: Manuel

Manuel — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 05:58:30 +0000

I just dropped one database instead of a table… fortunately it was not an important database!

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:16:53 +0000

I know that hopeless feeling after unwanted deletion very well… so I’m really happy that my post saved your hair!

By: iDev247

iDev247 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:29:02 +0000

It was 5:00AM. Stayed up all night to finish a project for a client. There was no more room for any kind of issue but then it happened. I accidentally dropped a database instead of a table.

Already being one day late for the project I thought I was screwed. The client would never trust me anymore.

But then I found this post and I really can’t believe it. It actually worked!

Thanks for the post and thanks to WAMP for setting the bin option in my.ini to ON by default.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:35:26 +0000

Wait, since it replays all entries in the binlog since start-datetime it will also replay the DROP command you’re trying to fix, right? How do you prevent that?

By: Teddy

Teddy — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:05:48 +0000

Unfortunately Ariel, I do not have any experience with doing this via PHP MyAdmin and I’m afraid it wouldn’t be possible. But maybe somebody else here could leave a message if has any idea how to do it your way…