Migrate MySQL Version to a new PC (1 reply)

I've recently changed my PC and I've installed the latest version of WampServer on my new PC. I'd like to keep the Wamp projects from my old PC, so I've copied them all into the WWW folder, but obviously that doesn't help with the databases.

On the new version of WampServer it uses MySQL 8 but my previous version used MySQL 5.7.14, so I copied this entire folder across to my new MySQL bin folder, and tried to change the version in WampServer from 8 to 5.7.14..... this worked fine and the version changed, but the projects can no longer read the databases and it's acting as if they don't exist. Similarly, I can't find them in phpmyadmin either.

I realise that the databases are stored in the sub folder "data" from the MySQL version folder, but this folder along with all files in that folder have already been copied across when I copied the full MySQL 5.7.14 folder. Is there some kind of cache or something that needs updating, or is this normal when you change your MySQL version? How can I get access to my databases again?

Thanks


** Edit **

Looking further into this it looks like it's loading Maria DB despite having two versions of MySQL. How do I change it to use MySQL instead?