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

Oracle Error Message

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

Reason for the Error

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.

Solution

Open the database, then retry the operation.