Access is denied when trying to create a file.

[adwodon]

This is something I think has happened to me before when I was learning Java however I didnt take notice of it as it worked on my uni computer but on my home computer running windows 7 I get the following error message when trying to make a file:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\James\Desktop\Measurements\1Mar (Access is denied)
Failed to make JPEG
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at org.jfree.chart.ChartUtilities.saveChartAsJPEG(Cha rtUtilities.java:520)
at org.jfree.chart.ChartUtilities.saveChartAsJPEG(Cha rtUtilities.java:474)
at dataProcessing.Analysis.plotMap(Analysis.java:118)
at dataProcessing.Analysis.main(Analysis.java:142)

The file im making is a JPEG which is created from the JFreeChart class:

public static void saveChartAsJPEG(File file, JFreeChart chart,
            int width, int height, ChartRenderingInfo info) throws IOException {

        if (file == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null 'file' argument.");
        }
        if (chart == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null 'chart' argument.");
        }
        OutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
        try {
            writeChartAsJPEG(out, chart, width, height, info);
        }
        finally {
            out.close();
        }

    }

The class I made to run it is (I very much doubt the problem is here either):

public static void plotMap(Map<String, DataSet> dataMap, String title, String saveLocation){
		Iterator<String> it = dataMap.keySet().iterator();
		DefaultCategoryDataset dataSet = new DefaultCategoryDataset();
		while(it.hasNext()){
			String key = it.next().toString();
			DataSet data = dataMap.get(key);
			dataSet.addValue(data.avgRSSI(), "test", key);
		}
		JFreeChart chart=createChart(dataSet, title);
		File image = new File(saveLocation);
		try {
			ChartUtilities.saveChartAsJPEG(image, chart, 500, 300);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			System.out.println("Failed to make JPEG");
		}
		
	}

Has anyone experienced this?
Is there any way around it?

I need to make a tonne of graphs for a mountain of data I have to sift through for a 3rd year physics group project and I fear I've hit a brick wall here :confused:

If there isn't a way around it can anyone recommend another way of getting the graphs done?

[adwodon]

I ran a test class and this has nothing to do with my code, I can't write a file and thats it.

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

public class TestClass2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Writer writer = null;

        try {
            String text = "This is a text file";

            File file = new File("C:\\write.txt");
            writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
            writer.write(text);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            try {
                if (writer != null) {
                    writer.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }
}

This gives the exact same error as before:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\write.txt (Access is denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(Unknown Source)
at dataProcessing.TestClass2.main(TestClass2.java:18)

I'm running windows 7, I haven't done anything out of the ordinary or knowingly done anything that would affect this.

Does anyone have any idea why it wont write files to my computer?
Surely this isnt unheard of?

[JosAH]

Does anyone have any idea why it wont write files to my computer?
Surely this isnt unheard of?

Check your account information whether or not you have write permissions anywhere on the file system. This is not a Java problem. e.g. it would be if you could write a file with, say, a text editor or similar.

kind regards,

Jos

[adwodon]

Its my personal computer and I am the only user, I have 'full control' in the permissions for all folders, I can do what I want when not using Java.

Thats what I don't understand, its my computer, why cant eclipse write files to it?

I could make the file myself in that folder, but I cant do it in Java.

I ran this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    	try {
    	    AccessController.checkPermission(new FilePermission("C:\\Users\\James\\Desktop\\Measurements\\", "read,write"));
    	    System.out.println("success?");
    	    // Has permission
    	} catch (SecurityException e) {
    		System.out.println("failure :(");
    	    // Does not have permission
    	}

And it fails yet as you can see I have the permissions to do things in the folder:

[adwodon]

Someone has saved the day :)

I need to have the file location with \\ at the end

so it would be:

 File file = new File("C:\\write.txt\\");

I guess its a windows 7 thing?

[JosAH]

Someone has saved the day :)

I need to have the file location with \\ at the end

so it would be:

 File file = new File("C:\\write.txt\\");

I guess its a windows 7 thing?

Yep, that would be my guess as well; I've never seen it before though ...

kind regards,

Jos