Oracle Troubleshooting: Datapump - ORA-39002: invalid operation

Some issue when working  on a datapump on an old machine. It used to work and out of a sudden, I was getting errors.

C:\Windows\system32>expdp bobdb/vmware dumpfile=bobdb.dmp full=n directory=DMPDIR logfile=bobdb.export.log

Export: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Oct 15 10:16:07 2015

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UDE-28002: operation generated ORACLE error 28002

ORA-28002: the password will expire within 7 days

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

ORA-39002: invalid operation

ORA-39070: Unable to open the log file.

ORA-29283: invalid file operation

ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 536

ORA-29283: invalid file operation

C:\Windows\system32>sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Thu Oct 15 10:16:28 2015

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Connected to:

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> select directory_name, directory_path from dba_directories;

DIRECTORY_NAME

------------------------------

DIRECTORY_PATH

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

XMLDIR

c:\ade\aime_dadvfm0254\oracle\rdbms\xml

DMPDIR

C:\Users\orcldb\Downloads\bobdb\

DATA_PUMP_DIR

C:\app\orcldb\admin\zig\dpdump\

DIRECTORY_NAME

------------------------------

DIRECTORY_PATH

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ORACLE_OCM_CONFIG_DIR

C:\app\orcldb\product\11.2.0\dbhome_2\ccr\state

SQL> quit

Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

C:\Windows\system32>

It turned out, entire directory of "C:\Users\orcldb\Downloads\bobdb\" was removed and causing the error. I wish the error would me more intuitive.

Created "bobdb" under download and fixed the issue.