I need help transferring from MAMP to MAMP PRO

Moving from MAMP to MAMP PRO is an easy one-step process. Simply click on the MAMP PRO icon to launch MAMP PRO, and the rest is taken care for you. Once you start up the servers in MAMP PRO your databases are automatically transferred over from the MAMP MySQL installation to the MAMP PRO MySQL installation. Although this process is seamless, it is important to remember you have two separate instances of MySQL installed by MAMP and MAMP PRO. Two separate instances of phpMyAdmin are administering these separate instances of MySQL data.

Your MAMP databases are located in your Applications/MAMP/db/mysql folder. When you open up MAMP and start your servers, your phpMyAdmin used by MAMP will point to this MySQL data. This instance of phpMyAdmin is located in Applications/MAMP/bin/phpMyAdmin. MAMP will continue to point to these databases even after you have initialized and started using MAMP PRO.

Your MAMP PRO databases are located in your Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql folder. When you open up MAMP PRO and start your servers, your phpMyAdmin used by MAMP PRO will point to this MySQL data This instance of phpMyAdmin is located in Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/phpMyAdmin.

Keep this in mind when you suspect data is missing. You may have inadvertently started MAMP, and made some changes to the wrong MySQL data.

Moving back to MAMP from a MAMP PRO Trial ...

If you have used the MAMP PRO two-week free trial and wish to go back to using the free MAMP, you will have to manually move your databases. Copy your database files of MAMP PRO to the MAMP database folder. Stop servers first! Make Backups! Just copy, don't move!

Your MAMP PRO databases are located in your Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/db/mysql folder.

Your MAMP databases are located in your Applications/MAMP/db/mysql folder.