“cannot connect to database” error (fixed)

  • Schoggifroeschli

    (@schoggifroeschli)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    i have a lot of images on my site, and was moving a bunch around, and deleting the original folders.
    the plugin worked like a charm until i tried deleting a folder with another (empty) directory inside it.
    up came a bunch of blank error messages, then a javascript error (sorry, did not record it) before the page came up with “cannot connect to database”.

    checking the database through my hosting provider gave me a server error (500), whilst my other databases opened up fine.

    I was able to fix it by creating a new database user and password via phpmyadmin & updating the credentials in wp-config.php.

    (just changing the password for the old user allowed me to open the database in phpmyadmin, but going to the website, it took me to the wordpress installation screen. i quickly closed that and created the new user – panic, who me? :p )

    scary, but ultimately no harm done. i shall run a backup before doing any more work though 😉

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author AlanP57

    (@alanp57)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    I do not know what happened to your database since the plugin uses the WordPress core database functions which should not cause any database corruption.

    Media Library Folder does not allow you to delete a folder if it has any contents. This is to prevent accidental deletion of media library files. Next time, try deleting the subfolder first.

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