Create a new file

Question

Hello,
I have a signed applet but it does not allow me to create new files. I can only read and create new folders.
for example, the code:
myFile.mkdirs();works ok
but with:
myFile.createNewFile();I get the exception:
java.io.IOException: Access is denied
     at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
     at java.io.File.createNewFile(Unknown SourceWhat�s going wrong?
thanks,
Fabr�cio Lemos

Answer 1

I'm having the same problem. I noticed that the mkdirs() method also creates a subdirectory with the name of what's supposed to be a file name :
File MyPropertyFile = new File("c:\\Program Files\\VAMPStatistics","VAMPProperties.txt");
/* what I want to do now is create a directory c:\Program Files\VAMPStatistics and a file named VAMPProperties.txt */
MyPropertyFile.mkdirs();
MyPropertyFile.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(MyPropertyFile);
After I run this I get
Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: c:\Program Files\VAMPStatistics\VAMPProperties.txt (Toegang geweigerd)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
and
I see that I have a directory on my pc
c:\Program Files\VAMPStatistics\VAMPProperties.txt
so VAMPProperties.txt is created as a subdirectory, not as a file.
So what happened is that when I call the constructor for FileOutputStream, MyPropertyFile object is interpreted as a complete directory name, not a directory and a file name
I notice that when i remove the mkdir() call, then there's no problem.