Had not used MAMP in a year since install, opened ok last weekend, was in phpmyadmin, then did other things on computer (just on MS Word, and checked news on Internet), then went back to MAMP.
Had problems: 1) click MAMP icon, "open start page" is greyed out so can't click & won't open. 2) Apache server is checked & running, but MySql server is not checked/not running. 3) "Start servers" button will not start the MySql server.... 4) When I go to http://localhost/MAMP/ I get error:
2002 - Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) The server is not responding (or the local server's socket is not correctly configured).
Have googled and tried *everything* I found but MAMP MYSQL won't start. Tried trashing MAMP & reinstalled - MYSQL server then *worked* but when I quit MAMP, next time MYSQL server wouldn't work again - just like before.....
Any ideas? Thx.

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