Re: Can't seem to import an Oracle 6 export into Personal Oracle 7 on a Mac.

In article <3213B474.6A31_at_msmail3.hac.com>, Hung Tran <httran1_at_msmail3.hac.com> wrote:
> I've been working days on this and Oracle support is still
> investigating the problem for me. Can anyone give me any
> leads to what to try next here?
>
> Scenario
> --------
> As the owner of a table logged in on the "Import" utility,
> I'm trying to import a small table (or any table actually)
> of 1 row. The appropriate name of the table is recognized
> in the list box of table(s) to import from the export file.
> And I get the following messages when I import:
>
> IMP-00010: not a valid export file, header failed verification
> IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully
>
> Trying this as the system user also produced the same result.
> I'd be much oblidged to any given assistance.
> ----

Did you ftp the export file using BINARY transfer mode ? A normal ASCII copy will corrupt any expdat.dmp file and make an import impossible.

IMPort will not be able to read the dump file as it indicates (IMP 00010). Received on Sat Aug 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST