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Asked: 2026-05-20T00:51:03+00:00

I want to create .nomedia file in the internal cache directory where I will

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I want to create .nomedia file in the internal cache directory where I will store images and tried the following..

File dir = getCacheDir();
File output = new File(dir, ".nomedia");
boolean fileCreated = output.createNewFile();

When I try this fileCreated is false and the file doesn’t get created.
If I used nomedia without a dot the file gets created but this is no use as the MediaScanner is looking if the .nomedia file exists.

I also tried this with a FileOutputStream and to write data in the file in case it was because I was only created an empty file but this doesn’t work either.

Anyone have an idea why this could be failing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Hmm, are you really sure that the file not already exists? Please note that you need to do an ls -a to see a file starting with a dot.

    The documentation of File.createNewFile() says:

    Returns true if the file has been
    created, false if it already exists.

    If the file is not created for other reasons (i.e. security), it should throw an exception.

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