File mkdirs() method not working in android/java

Question

I\'ve been pulling out my hair on this for a while now. The following method is supposed to download a file, and save it to the location specified on the hard drive.

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Answer 1

Are you sure that mkdirs is failing? Why don't you check the return value of the mkdirs call and log an error message if it returns false?

if (!file.getParentFile().exists() && !file.getParentFile().mkdirs()){
  log("Unable to create " + file.getParentFile());
}

I suspect that you might be surprised with what the file was...

PS - and please do something with that error handler - at minimum, log the error. Catching Exception and doing a silent return is horrible practice.