Error in accessing data through external table

Hi,
I am getting the following error while trying to view data through external table,
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
KUP-04062: no data source specified
ORA-06512: at "SYS.ORACLE_LOADER", line 19
according to this error "KUP-04062: no data source specified", location should be specified and i have specified the location as
LOCATION (<diectory_name>:' '),
then also it is giving the same error.
Please Help!

I am also got the same error when retrieving the data from external table.
I resolve this problem, like this:
1. I imported the flat file(.csv) into repository.
2. Map that flat file fields to database table cols.
3. Deployed the mapping using controlcenter, and run the mapping.
4. if it fails there, i loaded the flatfile data through the command prompt using "sqlldr" statement and control file is our mapping control file.
5 Then it loaded data into database table sucessfully.
Thanks.

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