mysqldump Error 1045 Access denied despite correct passwords etc

Question

This is a tricky one, I have the following output:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\' (using password: YES) when tr

Answer 1

This solution might be one of the last to try/least likely to be the culprit, but this was my problem...

My problem was that the directory I was trying to dump to needed admin privileges to write to and that's what was causing the mysqldump command to return "Access Denied".

I set the dump file path to my desktop dir and then it worked.

This was on Windows.