Invalid Directory

I am receiving the following error after receivng countless ones telling me my drive was corrupted and needed to be repaired after upgrading to Mountain Lion. I rebooted in safe mode and it now gives me this error when verifying my disk:
Invalid Directory Item Count
(it should be 929 instead of 930)
The disk was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Anyone know of a fix for this if so thanks in advance for your assistance.

Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

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Hi,
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Heading 2: h2. ERROR -29280ORA-29280: invalid directory path
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EXCEPTION
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Error starting at line 1 in command:
DECLARE
START_SENT_DATE DATE;
END_SENT_DATE DATE;
SENTTYPE NUMBER;
BEGIN
START_SENT_DATE := '01-JAN-2001';
END_SENT_DATE := '01-MAR-2001';
SENTTYPE := 10;
AMER_MAIN_PROC(
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    END_SENT_DATE => END_SENT_DATE,
    SENTTYPE => SENTTYPE
END;
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ORA-29282: invalid file ID
ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 878
ORA-06512: at "USSC_CASES.AMER_MAIN_PROC", line 106
ORA-29280: invalid directory path
ORA-06512: at line 10
29282. 00000 - "invalid file ID"
*Cause:    A file ID handle was specified for which no corresponding
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When I execute a procedure as shown below i use to get an error as
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exec emp_details('c:\emp\test.txt',100);
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ERROR at line 1:
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It might help if you can show the relevant parts of the procedure that are failing.
HTH
David

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v_file UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
v_dir VARCHAR2(250);
v_filename VARCHAR2(50);
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v_dir := 'D:/LANDMARK/datamigration';
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exception
when others then
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