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Android: open failed: ENOENT No such file or directory

I know have many question like my question. But It is different. I copy file from folder A to folder B in EXTERNAL_STORAGE use mothod below:
public static String copyFile(String path) {
String fileToName = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis());
File pathFrom = new File(path);
File pathTo = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/.noname");
File file = new File(pathTo, fileToName + ".bak");
while (file.exists()) {
fileToName = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis());
file = new File(pathTo, fileToName + ".bak");
}
InputStream in = null;
OutputStream out = null;
try {
in = new FileInputStream(pathFrom);
out = new FileOutputStream(file);
byte[] data = new byte[in.available()];
in.read(data);
out.write(data);
in.close();
out.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
}
return file.getPath();
}
The path param is: "/storage/emulated/0/Download/image_preview.jpg".
When execute this method I got an error: /storage/emulated/0/Download/tree_leaves_sunlight.jpg: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory).
Folder .noname have exists.
Is there any suggestion for my problem?
**UPDATE: This file I opening with ImageView. When I not open I can copy. But When I opening I got this error.
PS: I preview the image inImageView. And there have a Button copy image. When click to Button execute method copy this image to other folder.

When you create the File object for the parent directory
File pathTo = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/.noname")
Don't forget to actually create this folder
pathTo.mkdirs();
Also try to open file you're trying to copy in the gallery. It can be damaged and Android just can't open it.

How to create files to a specific folder in android application?

In my application, I want to create a text file in the cache folder and first what I do is create a folder in the cache directory.
File myDir = new File(getCacheDir(), "MySecretFolder");
myDir.mkdir();
Then I want to create a text file in that created folder using the following code that doesn't seem to make it there. Instead, the code below creates the text file in the "files" folder that is in the same directory as the "cache" folder.
FileOutputStream fOut = null;
try {
fOut = openFileOutput("secret.txt",MODE_PRIVATE);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String str = "data";
try {
fOut.write(str.getBytes());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
fOut.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
SO my question is, how do I properly designate the "MySecretFolder" to make the text file in?
I have tried the following:
"/data/data/com.example.myandroid.cuecards/cache/MySecretFolder", but it crashes my entire app if I try that. How should I properly save the text file in the cache/MySecretFolder?

use getCacheDir(). It returns the absolute path to the application-specific cache directory on the filesystem. Then you can create your directory
File myDir = new File(getCacheDir(), "folder");
myDir.mkdir();
Please try this maybe helps you.
Ok, If you want to create the TextFile in Specific Folder then You can try to below code.
try {
String rootPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
.getAbsolutePath() + "/MyFolder/";
File root = new File(rootPath);
if (!root.exists()) {
root.mkdirs();
}
File f = new File(rootPath + "mttext.txt");
if (f.exists()) {
f.delete();
}
f.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(f);
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Just change
fOut = openFileOutput("secret.txt",MODE_PRIVATE);
to
fOut = openFileOutput(myDir+"/secret.txt",MODE_PRIVATE);
This will make secret.txt under MySecretFolder

getPrivateDir will create a folder in your private area (Context.MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE- use what suits you from Context.MODE_...)
public File getPrivateDir(String name)
{
return context.getDir(name, Context.MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE);
}
openPrivateFileInput will create a file if it doesn't exist in your private folder in files directory and return a FileInputStream :
/data/data/your.packagename/files
Your application private folder is in
/data/data/your.packagename
public FileInputStream openPrivateFileInput(String name) throws FileNotFoundException
{
return context.openFileInput(name);
}
If you package name is uno.due.com your app private folder is:
/data/data/uno.due.com
All directories underneath are weather created by you or by android for you. When you create a file as above it will go under:
/data/data/uno.due.com/files

Simple and easy code to create folder, file and write/append into the file
try {
String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/newfoldername/"; // it will return root directory of internal storage
File root = new File(path);
if (!root.exists()) {
root.mkdirs(); // create folder if not exist
}
File file = new File(rootPath + "log.txt");
if (!file.exists()) {
file.createNewFile(); // create file if not exist
}
BufferedWriter buf = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file, true));
buf.append("hi this will write in to file");
buf.newLine(); // pointer will be nextline
buf.close();
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
NOTE: It needs the Android External Storage Permission so add below line in AndroidManifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"></uses-permission>

Android: problems creating a file

I'm writing an Android application in which I want to create text files in a particular folder and afterwards I want to read the files from my device.
I'm doing this way:
File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File f;
FileWriter fw = null;
String path = sd.getAbsolutePath() + "/Samples/";
f = new File(path+File.separator+"filename.txt");
if (!f.exists())
{
f.mkdirs();//Creates the directory named by this file, creating missing parent directories if necessary
try
{
f.createNewFile();
//fw = new FileWriter(f, true);
}
catch (IOException e)
{
Log.e("ERROR","Exception while creating file:"+e.toString());
}
The problem is that in this way I create another folder instead of a text file. What can I do? Thanks

Instead of:
f.mkdirs();
do:
path.mkdirs();

I found the solution and I want to share it with you:
File sd = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File folder;
String path = sd.getAbsolutePath() ;
folder = new File(path, dirName);
if (!folder.exists()){
folder.mkdirs();}
try{
File file = new File(folder, fileName+".txt");
file.createNewFile();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("ERROR", "Exception while creating file:" + e.toString());
}
I hope this could help other people having the same problem. Good luck

disallow images to display on gallery

I am have downloaded some images into my sd card and i would like to NOT display them in my gallery. Is there a way to remove them? I have read about .nomedia file but how to do I create them?
is it by doing this?
File storagePath = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),folderName+"/Covers/");
if (!storagePath.exists())
{
File file = new File(storagePath, ".nomedia");
if (!file.exists()) {
try {
file.createNewFile();
Log.d("created","successful");
}
catch(IOException e) {
}
}
}

Here's a snippet that will do what you want:
File storagePath = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),
folderName + "/Covers");
storagePath.mkdirs();
File filename;
filename = new File(storagePath + "/" + ".nomedia");
if (!filename.exists()) {
filename.createNewFile();
}
Note: It might throw an IOException if it cannot create the file, you should catch this.
It will take likely a reboot for the mediascanner to rescan and determine it should not index that location.

Folder created on android sd card, but file not created

I think I have looked at all of the relevant questions and I still can't get this to work.
Here is the code:
File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File directory= new File (sdCard.getAbsolutePath() + appName);
directory.mkdirs();
File file = new File(directory,fileName);
The folder is created, but I get an error saying the file does not exist. appName is a string containing the name of the folder and that works correctly. fileName is a string containing the name of the file I want to include.
I have included the permission in the manifest.
What am I doing wrong?
Update:
The code tries to make a subdirectory and a file at the same time, which hidden because the code uses a named String rather than a String literal. Adding an intermediate step to create the subdirectory solved the problem.

If the directory is created, then you're on the right track. In your code you are not actually creating the file on the SD card. If you need to create the file, then do this:
File sdCard = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
File file = new File(sdCard.getAbsolutePath() + appName + "/" + fileName);
directory.mkdirs();
file.createNewFile()
This is notional only. It would be much better to actually separate your fileName into a separate subfolder and the actual file and handle them separately.

Try this out:
In this I am creating a text file (.txt file) of a string.
public void createFileFromString(String text)
{
File logFile = new File("sdcard/xmlresponseiphone.txt");
if (!logFile.exists())
{
try
{
logFile.createNewFile();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
try
{
//BufferedWriter for performance, true to set append to file flag
BufferedWriter buf = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile, true));
buf.append(text);
buf.newLine();
buf.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Test this, and see what are you missing :)

Try with something like this. In this case I'm saving an image!
For creating the directory:
File directory = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
+ File.separator + appName);
directory.mkdirs();
And for saving into it
public void save(Bitmap graph, Context context, String name, String time, boolean now) throws IOException {
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
graph.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, bytes);
// you can create a new file name "test.jpg" in sdcard folder.
String fileName = "";
if (now){
fileName = getDateTime()+"_00"+".png";
}
else {
fileName = time.replace(".txt", ".png");
}
File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
+ File.separator + "appName/" + fileName);
f.createNewFile(); // write the bytes in file
FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);
fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());
}
I think the trick is in File.separator!