File.createNewFile() thowing IOException No such file or directory

Question

I have a method that writes to a log file. If the file exists it should append to it, if not then I want it to create a new file.

if (!file.exists() &&am         


        

Answer 1

This could be a threading issue (checking and creating together are not atomic: !file.exists() && !file.createNewFile()) or the "file" is already a directory.

Try (file.isFile()) :

if (file.exists() && !file.isFile()){
   //handle directory is there
}else if(!file.createNewFile()) {
   //as before
}