title: Forgotten MySQL root password
body: <p>I'm kind of stuck on what to do with this.  There were several options I found between this site and the mysql site on how to resolve a forgotten root password, but I think I've now broken it.</p>
  
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  <li><p>I was unable to use the line command with the created reset text file that mysql.com recommended <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> </p></li>
  <li><p>So I uninstalled WAMP which is what I had used to install it to begin with.  That also failed because after reinstall I had a new version and I couldnt log into either of them.  Apparently both versions were still there as uninstalling WAMP didnt uninstall MySQL.</p></li>
  <li><p>So I tried the make-sure-everything-is-deleted steps <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10070401/mysql-root-password-forgotten">here</a> and rebooted and reinstalled WAMP.  No go, won't take default password.</p></li>
  <li><p>Tried to run the command line command using the newest version  and got <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16119901/deprecated-warning-when-starting-mysql">this error</a>.</p></li>
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  <p>Now I can't do anything I need to get done and all other posts I find on this seem to be variants of these things I've already tried.</p>