MySQL: Error dropping database (errno 13; errno 17; errno 39)

Question

I failed to drop a database:

mysql> drop database mydb;
ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database (can\'t rmdir \'./mydb\', errno: 39)

Directory db/m

Answer 1

Simply go to /opt/lampp/var/mysql

There You can find your database name. Open that folder. Remove if any files in it

Now come to phpmyadmin and drop that database