overwrite a file with HTML5 FileWriter

Question

I\'m using HTML5 FileWriter API to save the state of my webapp. I have bit of JS that periodically calls FileWriter.write to do that (so , over time, the

Answer 1

You can truncate and then write with two different FileWriter objects.

fileEntry.createWriter(function (fileWriter) {

        fileWriter.truncate(0);

    }, errorHandler);

fileEntry.createWriter(function (fileWriter) {

        var blob = new Blob(["New text"], { type: 'text/plain' });

        fileWriter.write(blob);

    }, errorHandler);