When you unzip the patch, it requires that the patch number be the directory number. You can't rename it. Pat ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Lock Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 1:37 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: The patch directory area must be a number While trying to applying the latest patch to 9i, we are receiving this error. Any ideas on what may be causing this? Thankd Brian ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVACY NOTICE Information transmitted by this email is proprietary to Medtronic and is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is private, privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are notified that any use or dissemination of this information in any manner is strictly prohibited. In such cases, please delete this mail from your records. To view this notice in other languages you can either select the following link or manually copy and paste the link into the address bar of a web browser: http://emaildisclaimer.medtronic.com