Bug #109584 no my.ini file created or data folder
Submitted: 11 Jan 11:57 Modified: 12 Feb 12:41
Reporter: Reuben Matus Email Updates:
Status: No Feedback Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:8.0.31 OS:Windows (window 10 home)
Assigned to: MySQL Verification Team CPU Architecture:x86 (MSI)

[11 Jan 11:57] Reuben Matus 
Description:
Upon downloading pretty much all resources available (connectors, router, mySQLUtilities, MySQLWorkbench, etc.) on the windows MySQL installer I found myself unable to configure my server options file as a result of no my.ini file being in the default MySQL server 8.0 folder. I tried reinstalling MySQL server but this did not fix the problem.

How to repeat:
Install MySQL Workbench and server, etc. using windows installer on windows 10 home

Suggested fix:
Reimplement the my.ini file to install and subsequent updates
[11 Jan 12:07] Reuben Matus 
In addition to this I recently discovered no data folder is created either which contains server logs, this causes
Error creating log reader, [Errno 13] Permission denied '...\\Data\\MSI.err'
clicking try again simple fails and oddly creates more check more options alternating between All and InnoDB
[12 Jan 12:41] MySQL Verification Team 
Hello Reuben Matus,

Thank you for the bug report.
Please go through https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/windows-create-option-file.html for more info on creating an option file.

Regards,
Ashwini Patil
[13 Feb 1:00] Bugs System 
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