During a thunderstorm, the power supply of my computer was damaged. After replacing the power supply, I was having problems with the HD my Ubuntu 22.04 Linux is on. Finally, I could only boot to an emergency command line prompt. And that didn't work. I had a screwed up alternate copy of Ubuntu 22.04 on another drive which I used for some purposed but not for CQRLOG. I moved to Windows for my digital work which is where I have contacts logged.

I was given a better computer than what I had and with the current state of component costs that was great. Due to frustrations with Ubuntu, I moved to Linux Mint (I know, it is based on Ubuntu but ...). The MariaDB files on the old computer can be read. I tried setting up CQRLOG on the new computer using the old files but all I get is the infamous TMySQL57 server connect error. The MariaDB server on the old computer was also used for running a small website (LAMP and Wordpress), so it was set up with the datafiles in /var/lib/mysql. I have port 3306 opened in ufw.

Any help in trying to fix this would be appreciated so I can recover my past contacts.