Opening a specific directory using JFileChooser.

Iam using JFIleChooser to select a file is there any way that i the dialog opens at a particular directory say...c:\gallery\imagee...the default dialog opens @ MyDocuments Folder.

Read the API documentation of the class, especially coustructor section.

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Hello and welcome to the forum. Let me add code tags to your posted code
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import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
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