Hello
Yes, it was working just fine before the update - I spent a full working day doing dev on Ignition, then the next day I did the update. I didn’t actually look at Ignition (or anything else on my computer for about a week), then when I tried to start Ignition I had the issue.
Your solution fixed half the issue, thank you very much.
In addition to Ignition mysteriously changing, Microsoft update also managed to mess up MySQL - in their wisdom, they/Oracle decided to merrrily uninstall the MySQL service - who knows why. In addition, in 8.1, MySQL has suddenly decided to no longer use the C:\ProgramData\ folder for storing the ini file and the databases - it now points to C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\data. Of course, there was nothing in there, because it just moved the pointer and not the actual data.
So if anyone else has this issue, to fix it you need to reinstall the MySQL service, and you need to point it to your ini file:
cd "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin"mysqld --install MySQL56 --defaults-file="C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini"