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After a reinstall, all of the old data still shows inside the MySQL/data folder, but is not actually loaded into the database. Is there any way to have MySQL scan it's data folder and / or reimport the old folders it has from its previous install? [Some data was changed after the last backup / export - partially my fault - so I would rather it recognize the folders rather than reimporting the SQL files.] If the data is in the correct folder, it will be visible in MySQL, or you will get errors when the server starts. Check /var/log/messages and your MySQL error log (as defined in your config).

Is there a way to detect from app code when it is being reinstalled. I saw that app update from market can be detected by listening to PACKAGE_REPLACED event in broadcast receiver. But that these events are not delivered to the app , if the app is reinstalled from editor (eclipse ). My requirement is that i am disabling a component(Launcher activity). The app install will fail if it is not enabled. SO everytime before reinstall i want to enable this component. I am talking about the reinstall before publishing in market. While developing , each time i reinstall the app to test some

I was attempting to install Django and pymc yesterday. After running into a lot of problems I decided to just re-install Python 2.7. I've done that but am now having problems import almost anything. I get a bunch of lines, the last of which are: File "c:\python27\lib\httplib.py", line 71, in <module> import socket File "c:\python27\lib\socket.py", line 47, in <module> import _socket ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found. Whether I run python in the command prompt (which works) and try to do import pip , or type outside of the shell python get-pip.py I get