ERROR 2013 (HY000) (no replies)

I am using MAMP and had to recover using Time Machine. Prior to the crash MySQL worked flawlessly. Now I get errors:

ERROR 2013 (HY000) at line 1: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlimport: Error: 2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqlimport: Error: 2002 Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

I am can run queries but imports fail. I created file my.cnf in /etc setting the max_allowed_packet=500M as I read that solves it for some. Unfortunately, it did not help me. I am running MAMP 2.1.4 now as I upgraded it which is MySQL 5.5.29. It was 5.5.25 prior when the problem started. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,