Can't add a new site

Hey @Goepf – Thanks for giving Local a try. From this error message:

{"thread":"main","class":"","stack":"Error: Command failed: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=%%userDataPath%%\\run\\fGAZsimyC\\conf\\mysql\\my.cnf --initialize-insecure\nmysqld: Can't create directory '%%userDataPath%%\run\\fGAZsimyC\\mysql\\data\\' (OS errno 2 - No such file or directory)\r\n2020-11-23T11:01:00.641003Z 0 [System] [MY-013169] [Server] C:\\Users\\G�pf\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Local\\resources\\extraResources\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe (mysqld 8.0.16) initializing of server in progress as process 9484\r\n2020-11-23T11:01:00.642316Z 0 [Warning] [MY-013243] [Server] --character-set-server: The character set UTF8MB3 is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please consider using UTF8MB4 instead.\r\n2020-11-23T11:01:00.643182Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-013236] [Server] Newly created data directory %%userDataPath%%\run\\fGAZsimyC\\mysql\\data\\ is unusable. You can safely remove it.\r\n2020-11-23T11:01:00.643220Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting\r\n2020-11-23T11:01:00.643355Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] C:\\Users\\G�pf\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Local\\resources\\extraResources\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.16)  MySQL Community Server - GPL.\r\n\n    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:304:12)\n    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)\n    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:475:20)\n    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)\n    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:283:5)","level":"error","message":"Unable to provision site.","timestamp":"2020-11-23T11:01:00.651Z"}

This specific part makes it look like MySQL is having issues with the special character in the username: ...Users\\G�pf\\AppData...

This is a known issue with Local running on Windows. You can take a look at this topic in the community forums for more info as well as the backstory:

I don’t have a specific ETA for when this will be fixed, but looking through that topic should give you some alternative ways to get things working!