Hi Niall, I checked the correct path (some more times to be sure.....), moreover it's a local drive; but it could be going to leave this earth (even if it's the last added one) so I will check for errors in eventlog. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Alessandro > This error is nearly, but not quite, always caused by the archivelog > destination running out of space. You say that you checked disk space (I > assume you mean on e:\). Another possible cause is that the drive is > networked in someway (NAS/SAN) and you temporarily lost connection to it - > this or hardware errors - should show up in the system event log. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l