Well, good. This tightens up the operation a little bit. I didn't think it would let me drop the file before I created a new one. This is pretty convenient. Imagine it being easy and straight forward :^). PINE-SYS> STARTUP ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 135339844 bytes Fixed Size 454468 bytes Variable Size 109051904 bytes Database Buffers 25165824 bytes Redo Buffers 667648 bytes Database mounted. Database opened. PINE-SYS> ALTER DATABASE tempfile 'C:\OraHome1\oradata\pine\temp01.dbf' DROP; Database altered. PINE-SYS> ALTER TABLESPACE temp ADD tempfile 'C:\OraHome1\oradata\pine\temp01.dbf' SIZE 102400K autoextend OFF; Tablespace altered. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:26 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: recoving the temp tablespace Donald, You don't need a different one. You can just -re-create the original (not-resoterd, because not backed up) tempfile for the tablespace. The tablespace is there in the dictionary, just the tempfiles are missing. They can be added to the tablespace again. Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === At 11:19 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: Your database is going to be looking for the 'old' temp file. Create a new, different one. Drop the old one, recreate the old one, drop the new one. Is that too many 'olds' and 'news?' :-) CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP1 TEMPFILE 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\NEDSSARP\TEMP99.DBF' SIZE 2097152K AUTOEXTEND OFF EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 4096K SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT MANUAL / ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP1 / DROP TABLESPACE TEMP INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES / CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP TEMPFILE 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\NEDSSARP\TEMP01.DBF' SIZE 2097152K AUTOEXTEND OFF EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 4096K SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT MANUAL / ALTER DATABASE DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP / DROP TABLESPACE TEMP1 INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES /