How to fix the Oracle error ORA-15505: cannot start workload capture because instance string encountered errors while accessing directory “string”?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-15505: cannot start workload capture because instance string encountered errors while accessing directory “string” with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-15505: cannot start workload capture because instance string encountered errors while accessing directory “string”

Reason for the Error ORA-15505: cannot start workload capture because instance string encountered errors while accessing directory “string”

Given instance could not access the specified CAPTURE directory or the specified CAPTURE directory already had a workload capture in it.

How to fix the Error ORA-15505: cannot start workload capture because instance string encountered errors while accessing directory “string” ?

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

Provide a directory object that is valid, empty and accessible from all the instances in the database cluster.