<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I recently installed digiKam 7.2.0 (DK) on MacOS 10.14.6 (SQLite database). I have 175,000+ images (have not yet scanned them all into DK), and noted that MySQL is recommended for large collections. I decided to migrate to the ‘MySQL Internal’ option.</div><br class="">The 2 specified binaries ‘mysql_install_db’ & ‘mysqld’ were ticked in the migration window. I rec’d the following error msg:<br class=""><br class=""><i class="">An error occurred during the internal server start.<br class="">Details: Could not start database initializer.<br class="">Executable: /Applications/<a href="http://digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/bin/mysql_install_db" class="">digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/bin/mysql_install_db</a><br class="">Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/<a href="http://digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf" class="">digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf</a>, --basedir=/Applications/<a href="http://digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/" class="">digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/</a>, --datadir=/Users/xxxxxx/Pictures/digikam_mysql_db_folder/.mysql.digikam/db_data<br class="">Process error: Unknown error<br class=""></i><br class="">I had to uninstall & re-install DK as it would no longer launch successfully. Have reverted to DK's SQLite database for now.<br class=""><br class="">I’ve read docs, FAQ’s and searched many forums without getting a clear answer. <br class=""><br class="">Is there a way to achieve a ‘MySQL Internal’ config after installing on MacOS 10.14.6 from the current mac pkg file? <br class=""><br class="">Installing MacPorts seems to potentially introduce other issues re old versions, performance, etc. (I may be wrong on this).<br class=""><br class="">I have chosen DK after a long (expensive) search trying many image organisers… I’m very impressed with DK’s design. It is the *only* image organiser that I’ve found that might successfully replace Picasa, which I’ve been using for many, many years.<br class=""><br class="">Congratulations on the huge effort which has led to DK being such a good product.<br class=""><br class="">To sum up… is there a way to achieve a ‘MySQL Internal’ config after installing on MacOS 10.14.6 from the current mac pkg file? <br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Gary<br class=""><br class=""></body></html>