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Overview

• Mac OS X - mysqldump on the command line fails

• "Non-English" characters in paths break the stack

Mac OS X - mysqldump on the command line fails

Symptom - When exporting a website you have developed on the Acquia Drupal stack and a command like this fails to export the database:

mysqldump -u [user] [databasename]

Solution - The mysqldump command needs more specific information in this case. Try the following command. Substitute the correct path to the DAMP stack on your computer for "path/to/DAMP/" and enter your database password when prompted:

./mysqldump -S /path/to/DAMP/install/mysql/data/mysql.sock \
-u [database username] -p [databasename]

"Non-English" characters in paths break the stack

Do not use non-English characters in directory names when you import sites into the Acquia Drupal stack.

If you have components of your site in directories with accented characters in their names or files with the same, it can break the DAMP stack. To make sure this doesn't happen, you should stick to file and directory names using "standard" ASCII characters. The stack is currently unable to work with Cyrillic, accented, or other non-ASCII characters.