Mark, Thanks, a bit late now, but useful for the future. I don't recall exactly where this is in the GUI. I spent a fair amount of time attempting to get this right. Any pointers? Regards. Mark W. Farnham wrote: > If you want them in the same directory, then you want to remove the letter > "s" from the end of controlfiles. > > (and if you're SAME or single location, OMF should have no downside.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of S. Anthony Sequeira > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:57 PM > To: Oracle List > Subject: Re: Oracle-Managed Files - your views > > <snip> > I want the controlfiles, redologs and datafiles in the same directory. > > <snip> > > > > > -- S. Anthony Sequeira ++ If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. -- William Orton ++ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l