Hi John, yes, I knew about typing it into the dropdown - I always do that. But Thanks. The problem was that the host name in the IFILE had changed, the existing one was no longer contactable. When I tried to connect, Toad still attempted to go to the old server, and timed out on the connection. I'll just have to cope with this, it doesn't happen too often, I hope, and I can just use the tnsnames.ora editor to fiddle the local file to get it to read in the IFILE. As ever, thanks very much.
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