Why use IOexception instead of Exception when catching?

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Answer 1

What if you want to do a different action with different exceptions? You can make a catch block for IOException and for example, make it show a message box. Then make another catch block for a FileNotFoundException and make it create a new file and try to open it again, or even rethrow the exception. Hope I explained myself correctly. Cheers!