Denham, Look under the SYS schema for a table called EXPACT$. Look for the SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_RGT_EXP entry in this table. When Oracle export runs, it uses this table to determine what additional tables need to be exported - even if you didn't ask them to be exported. I have deleted entries in this table in the past when I got the same error that you got, and the error went away. The example I use is the ORDSYS and MDSYS stuff. I dropped these schema's in the past and export complained about the tables not being there. I removed the entries and all was fine. *Caution*. If you do this and your database dies, it's not my fault!!! Good Luck! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Denham Eva [mailto:EVAD@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 6:33 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Export error Hello Listers Does someone please have some advice. An export error has appeared since a colleage created a database with replication and as we don't have a license I removed this product using the catrepr.sql script. However I now have the following error and would like to know how to get rid of it. ....... . exporting pre-schema procedural objects and actions EXP-00008: ORACLE error 6550 encountered ORA-06550: line 1, column 13: PLS-00201: identifier 'SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_RGT_EXP' must be declared ORA-06550: line 1, column 7: PL/SQL: Statement ignored EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_RGT_EXP.schema_info_exp . exporting cluster definitions ...... ..... .... ...... . exporting post-schema procedural objects and actions EXP-00008: ORACLE error 6550 encountered ORA-06550: line 1, column 13: PLS-00201: identifier 'SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_RGT_EXP' must be declared ORA-06550: line 1, column 7: PL/SQL: Statement ignored EXP-00083: The previous problem occurred when calling SYS.DBMS_REPCAT_RGT_EXP.schema_info_exp . exporting user history table . exporting default and system auditing options . exporting statistics Export terminated successfully with warnings. Many Thanks Denham -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l