How to fix the Oracle error ORA-01672: control file may be missing files or have extra ones?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-01672: control file may be missing files or have extra ones with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-01672: control file may be missing files or have extra ones

Reason for the Error ORA-01672: control file may be missing files or have extra ones

Attempting to create a standby control file, but the control file was either recently created via CREATE CONTROLFILE or an incomplete recovery has been done. Thus the datafiles in the control file and the ones in the data dictionary may not match.

How to fix the Error ORA-01672: control file may be missing files or have extra ones ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Open the database, then retry the operation.