title: Finding Data Pump Dump Location in 12c
body: <p>First and foremost, apologies for a very novice question here. I was just starting to get the hang of how the data pump dump worked in 11g when the customers I support moved to 12c. Darn the luck. :)</p>
  
  <p>So a hopefully quick question: I'm using a coworker's Windows server running 12c to try to import a customer's data pump dump (have their dump and log file), but I have no idea where to place the dump for import.  When I run:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>select * from dba_directories where directory_name='DATA_PUMP_DIR';   
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  <p>this is the output returned:</p>
  
  <pre><code>c:\ade\aime_v\oracle/admin/seeddata/dpdump/
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  <p>That directory does not exist anywhere on this machine, plus it looks like an unusual directory path. (My coworker is on vacation, else I'd just ask of course). </p>
  
  <p>So has something changed in 12c where it treats directories a bit differently?  I keep thinking surely the one who created this server couldn't have just pointed the data pump dir to a non-existent path like that. I'm presently googling myself in circles, so I suppose the short question is simply where do I begin as a first step in figuring out where my directory is for dropping my dump import file?</p>
  
  <p>Again, apologies for the embarrassingly newbie question, and thanks in advance for entertaining my question. </p>