This is a very strange issue that is similar to a few other people issue that has been going on for a while with MAMP. I recently upgraded to MAMP2 and followed the instruction for the new phpMyAdmin and it work for a while but recently whenever I try to connect to MySQL I always get this error:
Error: Could not connect to MySQL server!
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlcheck: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) when trying to connect
So I changed the password to the correct one and changed all the files as per advised on this forum topic: http://forum.mamp.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11974.
But it did not work at all. I realized that there was two phpMyAdmin folder on my Mac one which is in
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/phpMyAdmin
and the other one in
Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/phpMyAdmin
In the first folder the config.inc.php as the correct credential for the user, however the second as root for both username and password. Obviously I tried to changed that but to no avail, the file is somehow always reverted to the default credential.
Did someone ever had this issue? is there a way to solve this?