Need To Urgently Delete Contents of a File! Please

I have flat File that exist in a Directory. I check what its contents is and then I have to overwrite this File. But unfortunately I can't figure out how to overwrite what is alrady on the File. i just seem to add onto the contents.
File f = new File("path" + "filename");
//I need to check if it exist, so that I can decide whether I want to
//create a New File, Modify the File or Pend the File
//I can Pend and I can create a File, but not MOD
f.exists();
RandomAccessFile random = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw");
//As far as I understand the following command deletes the File
//and returns a boolean the verify whether is has deleted the File or not.
//But it always returns false
f.delete();
random.writeBytes("StringofBytes");If any of can see what I'm doing wrong. Please help me I got a time limit on this one.

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