Question

I’m creating a file in data/data/myPackage/files/ :

file = new File( getFilesDir() + "/file.txt");

I’m absolutely sure that the file is created.
Right after its creation I call:

file.canWrite();

and the result is true.

When I try to use that file
I get: “Permission Denied”.
In Eclipse, in DDMS, this file permissions are like:

-rw-------

Can anyone help here?

Thanks

Answer 1

Easiest way to open the file (and create it at the same time) would be to use the openFileOutput("file.txt", MODE_PRIVATE) method.

This ensures that the file is only readable by your application (the same as you’ve have at the moment), plus it returns you a FileOutputStream so you can start writing to it.