delete temporary file in java

Question

I\'m creating temporary file in java but i\'m unable to delete it. This is the code I have written:

temp = File.createTempFile(\"temp\", \".txt\");
temp.dele         


        

Answer 1

There's a bug saying that if the file is open by filewriter or anything, it won't be deleted. On windows. Check if you close your file writers.

Another workaround would be installing a ShutdownHook which would manually delete the file.