ORA-01116 error

I have a customer running Oracle 7.3. Can you please help me with the following error?: "ORA-01116: error in opening database file 10."

Brian Peasland

Published: 06 Dec 2006

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I have a customer running Oracle 7.3. I know it's very old but the software runs on this version. Can you please help me with the following errors?

09:00 14th Nov 2006 
ORA-01116: error in opening database file 10
ORA-01110: data file 10:

I have restored the file but still get this error. It happens on different files as well.

The ORA-1116 error indicates that for some reason, Oracle cannot open the file. Make sure that the file exists. Also make sure that the user running Oracle (typically 'oracle' on Unix/Linux servers) has write permissions to the file and the directory the file resides in.

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