how to drop database

Question

i used the following sytanx

drop database filmo; 

and got the following error:

ERROR 1010 (HY000): Error dropping database         


        

Answer 1

do you have write permission on that directory (and the parent)? you may need to recursively make the directory writable (security tab in windows or chmod in nix) and delete any non-db files like "Thumbs.db"