Unable to create and write files

[DrKilljoy]

I'm trying to create a save game system for a program I'm making. I'm trying to do this by having the player save their progress to a file with the extension .ksm by writing the player's current data of the currently active "Mission" object (containing everything needed to continue the game from where it was left off) to said file using an ObjectOutputStream. While the program starts up fine and error-free, the data doesn't seem to write.

I double-checked all the directories, and everything was where it should have been, so then I tried commenting out the code that creates a file, manually making one in the directory, and just writing to that. I ran the program, and the file still came up empty. I can't really think of anything else to do, so here's the relevant code:

...
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
...
String missiondirectory;
Mission misalpha;
File testfile;
FileOutputStream missionos;
ObjectOutputStream missionwriter;
...
public MainController() throws IOException {

	missiondirectory = "c:\\tbsmissions";
	testfile = new File(missiondirectory+"outputtest.ksm");
...
	misalpha = new Mission(testmap1, players);
...
	testfile.createNewFile();
	missionos = new FileOutputStream(missiondirectory+"outputtest.ksm");
	missionwriter = new ObjectOutputStream(missionos);
	missionwriter.writeObject(misalpha);
}

So, any obvious problems?

[travishein]

how about adding

missionWriter.flush();
missionWriter.close();

after the writeObject() method call.

Other ideas include, its possible Windows [7] now has a default security mechanism to simply not let user applications write to the C:\ location. Perhaps try writing to

new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), "tbsmissions");

[DrKilljoy]

Hmm, nope, no dice. Any other suggestions?

[Norm]

file still came up empty

By file empty do you mean it has a length of 0.

What is the name of the file written to disk?
Your code suggests this: c:\\tbsmissionsoutputtest.ksm

What code catches any exception thrown by the Constructor?
What does it do if it gets an exception?
Modify the code to use a try{}catch block and add a printStackTrace() to the catch.

[DrKilljoy]

What is the name of the file written to disk?
Your code suggests this: c:\\tbsmissionsoutputtest.ksm

Oh wow...that's kind of embarrassing. I changed the "directory" string from "c:\\tbsmissions" to "c:\\tbsmissions\\" and it works now.

Thanks for the help :D