Cannot make file java.io.IOException: No such file or directory

Question

I am trying to create a file on the filesystem, but I keep getting this exception:

java.io.IOException: No such file or directory

I have an existing directory, and I am trying to write a file to that directory.

// I have also tried this below, but get same error
// new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.foo/bar/" + fileName);

File f = new File(System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.foo/bar/", fileName);

if (f.exists() && !f.canWrite())
        throw new IOException("Kan ikke skrive til filsystemet " + f.getAbsolutePath());

if (!f.isFile()) {
    f.createNewFile(); // Exception here
} else {
    f.setLastModified(System.currentTimeMillis());
}

Getting exception:

java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
  at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
  at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:883)`

I have write permission to the path, however the file isn't created.

Can you please add to this line after the first line, and show us the output: System.out.println(f); — Steve McLeod, Sep 19 '11 at 09:48
And you are sure that the directories `.foo/bar` actually exists? — trojanfoe, Sep 19 '11 at 09:48
Does this answer your question? [File.createNewFile() thowing IOException No such file or directory](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1525060/file-createnewfile-thowing-ioexception-no-such-file-or-directory) — jp_, Sep 09 '21 at 14:47

score 57 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 14 '13 at 10:52

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If the directory ../.foo/bar/ doesn't exist, you can't create a file there, so make sure you create the directory first.

Try something like this:

File f = new File("somedirname1/somedirname2/somefilename");
if (!f.getParentFile().exists())
    f.getParentFile().mkdirs();
if (!f.exists())
    f.createNewFile();

edited Feb 14 '13 at 10:52

John Topley

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Bohemian

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@Shervin, then debugging is your next step you **must** undertake. :-) – Buhake Sindi Sep 19 '11 at 09:53
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nice one, helped me – emvidi May 19 '17 at 14:57

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:48

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Print the full file name out or step through in a debugger. When I get confused by errors like this, it means that my assumptions and expectations don't match reality. Make sure you can see what the path is; it'll help you figure out where you've gone wrong.

answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:48

duffymo

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Can't imagine why this was down voted 5.5 years after the fact when it was accepted by the OP and acknowledged as the correct fix in a comment. Feels vindictive. Easy to do when anonymous. – duffymo Mar 09 '17 at 17:12
Its easy yes, but whoever downvotes also looses reputation, so it not "free" to downvote. – Shervin Asgari Mar 13 '17 at 13:33
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I have enough where I don't care. It's the attitude that bothers me, not the loss of rep. – duffymo Mar 13 '17 at 13:34
I am having same trouble while merging two videos I am passing paths of two videos which I can see in my log and the path of resulting video is same as these videos but it throws this error -java.io.IOException: No such file or directory – Akash Dubey May 17 '17 at 06:04
I have also checked using Bohemian's answer weather my video paths exist, and yes they exists still It throws error!! Need help – Akash Dubey May 17 '17 at 06:05
You are still doing it wrong, then. Believe the JVM. Keep looking. Don't hijack 6 year old answers. – duffymo May 17 '17 at 09:02
the error for me was because of the case sensitive check in UNIX system on the path. So make sure to check out the leading folder path CASE in the code vs in the filesystem. – KarthiS Jan 25 '19 at 15:03

score 13 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 06 '16 at 10:11

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Be careful with permissions, it is problably you don't have some of them. You can see it in settings -> apps -> name of the application -> permissions -> active if not.

Permissions app

edited Dec 06 '16 at 10:11

Danh

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answered Dec 06 '16 at 10:08

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:50

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Try with

f.mkdirs() then createNewFile()

answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:50

jmj

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Can you try [`File.separator`](http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#separator) instead of '/' – jmj Sep 19 '11 at 09:52

Fabian Barney · Answer 5 · 2011-09-19T10:14:44.307

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You may want to use Apache Commons IO's FileUtils.openOutputStream(File) method. It has good Exception messages when something went wrong and also creates necessary parent dirs. If everything was right then you directly get your OutputStream - very neat.

If you just want to touch the file then use FileUtils.touch(File) instead.

edited Sep 19 '11 at 10:14

answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:57

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 12 '17 at 07:32

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I got the same problem when using rest-easy. After searching while i figured that this error occured when there is no place to keep temporary files. So in tomcat you can just create tomcat-root/temp folder.

answered Jan 12 '17 at 07:32

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 19 '11 at 09:51

File.isFile() is false if the file / directory does not exist, so you can't use it to test whether you're trying to create a directory. But that's not the first issue here.

The issue is that the intermediate directories don't exist. You want to call f.mkdirs() first.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 15 '17 at 08:53

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i fixed my problem by this code on linux file system

if (!file.exists())
    Files.createFile(file.toPath());

answered May 15 '17 at 08:53

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