What insanity caused you to pick Perl?
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Even the installation is confusing: it wants to put something in C:\ProgramData as well as C:\Program Files, and then asks me where I want to put my databases.
That's correct. Program Files is for the application files, whilst Program Data is for the application settings/etc.
The databases are more user data.
The reason for Program Files and Program Data splitting into two is for security/permissions stuff - remember when certain apps couldn't run without admin user? That's what this solves.
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I have my external USB drive as B: but MySQL won't let me pick that. This is a minor issue.
What about if you do "SUBST X: B:\" - (where X is whatever other letter you'd like to use) - or even "SUBST X: B:\MySqlData\" if you prefer.
I think that will fool it into letting you use that.
If so, you'll need to add the command to a startup script so it runs every time you turn the machine on.