Question

What I want to do is pretty simple. I would like to have sync for www and mysql/data folder sync.

I have successful make the change, first I point www folder to dropbox, and change the my.ini

datadir=C:/Dropbox/web/mysql/data

(note: I know some ppls might comment, it is not good to have the mysql data sync, and try to use remote mysql database, but my problem is I do not have internet connection all the time, or my internet connection is pretty bad / slow), I just like localhost speed 🙂

Now my problem is, inside my C:/Dropbox/web/mysql/data there is a lot mysql-bin.0000xy file. How I can remove it, and totally disable the log in mysql.

I had tried.
login to root in mysql run

SHOW VARIABLES;
SET sql_log_bin=0;
SET GLOBAL expire_logs_days=10;
FLUSH LOGS; 
PURGE BINARY LOGS TO 'mysql-bin.000001'; 
PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE '2011-12-31 23:59:59'; 

The log files still appear inside C:/Dropbox/web/mysql/data

Next I tried this

SHOW BINARY LOGS;

Error Code : 1381
You are not using binary logging

What I want just get rid for the log file inside my mysql data folder, so I can save the space, and dropbox do not need to sync it.

Answer 1

http://systems.takizo.com/2009/08/23/how-to-remove-mysql-binary-log/

To clean up Binary Log on Master Server

shell> mysql -u username -p
mysql> RESET MASTER;

A client that has the SUPER privilege can disable binary logging of its own statements by using a

SET sql_log_bin = ‘OFF’

statement.